Eurasian Crossroads
A History of Xinjiang
Seiten
2021
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78738-334-0 (ISBN)
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78738-334-0 (ISBN)
Forming one-sixth of the People's Republic of China (PRC), Xinjiang stands at the crossroads between China, India, the Mediterranean, and Russia and has, since the Bronze Age, played a pivotal role in the social, cultural, and political development of Asia and the world. This title presents the history of Xinjiang.
"Eurasian Crossroads" is the first comprehensive history of Xinjiang, the vast central Eurasian region bordering India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia. Forming one-sixth of the People's Republic of China (PRC), Xinjiang stands at the crossroads between China, India, the Mediterranean, and Russia and has, since the Bronze Age, played a pivotal role in the social, cultural, and political development of Asia and the world. Xinjiang's population comprises Kazakhs, Kirghiz, and Uighurs, all Turkic Muslim peoples, as well as Han Chinese, and competing Chinese and Turkic nationalist visions boiled over into insurrection in 2009. This book provides the essential historical and cultural background to this fascinating part of the world. This new edition brings the story of the Uighurs up to date.
"Eurasian Crossroads" is the first comprehensive history of Xinjiang, the vast central Eurasian region bordering India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia. Forming one-sixth of the People's Republic of China (PRC), Xinjiang stands at the crossroads between China, India, the Mediterranean, and Russia and has, since the Bronze Age, played a pivotal role in the social, cultural, and political development of Asia and the world. Xinjiang's population comprises Kazakhs, Kirghiz, and Uighurs, all Turkic Muslim peoples, as well as Han Chinese, and competing Chinese and Turkic nationalist visions boiled over into insurrection in 2009. This book provides the essential historical and cultural background to this fascinating part of the world. This new edition brings the story of the Uighurs up to date.
James A. Millward is Professor of Inter- societal History at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. The author of Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759–1864, he writes on contemporary China in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books and the New York Review of Books.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.12.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, unspecified |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78738-334-2 / 1787383342 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78738-334-0 / 9781787383340 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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