Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State

by Justin M. Jacobs

Book Overview

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295806570

Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui, Mongols, Kirgiz, and Tajiks, is also the last significant "colony" of the former Qing empire to remain under continuous Chinese rule throughout the twentieth century. By foregrounding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029574264X
• ISBN13: 9780295742649
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher