The Uyghurs
Subtitle: strangers in their own land
By: Gardner Bovingdon.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780231147583; 9780231519410
Subjects: Uighur (Turkic people) -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu -- History -- 20th century; Nationalism -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements; China -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Using the past to serve the present; title: Heteronomy and its discontents; title: Everyday resistance: guerrilla actions in the battle over public opinion; title: Collective action and violence; title: Uyghur transnational organizations.