Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China's Borderlands

by Judd Kinzley

China's westernmost province of Xinjiang has experienced escalating cycles of violence, interethnic strife, and state repression since the 1990s. In their search for the roots of these growing tensions, scholars have tended to focus on ethnic clashes and political disputes. In Natural Resources and the New Frontier, historian Judd C. Kinzley takes a different approach--one that works from the ground up to explore the infrastructural and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022649215X
• ISBN13: 9780226492155
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.9"