China and the Uyghurs of Xianjiang

by Morris Rossabi

Who are the Uyghurs of Xianjiang?

This book offers a comprehensible view of one of modern China's most seemingly inscrutable, publicized, and complex issues -- the treatment of the Muslim Uyghur minority in the northwest region of Xinjiang. After a brief historical background, historian Morris Rossabi describes the Chinese Communists' policies toward the Uyghurs since 1949. Many authors who write about and identify with the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019758134X
• ISBN13: 9780197581346
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages