Turkistan Tumult

by Aitchen Wu and Ai-Ch'en Wu

This fast-moving narrative, written by a key official of the Kuomintang regime in Republican China, offers an astonishing insider's view of politics and rebellion in Chinese Turkistan in the 1930s. Posted to the western Chinese province of Xinjiang in 1932, Aitchen Wu's challenge there was to impose the authority of the central government upon the recalcitrant region and to negotiate between the warring factions whose power sturggles had brought political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195838394
• ISBN13: 9780195838398
• Release Date: April 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.