China, Xinjiang and Central Asia
Subtitle: history, transition and crossborder interaction into the 21st century
By: edited by Colin Mackerras and Michael Clarke.
Contributors: Mackerras, Colin.; Clarke, Michael.
Series: Routledge contemporary China series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415453172; 9780203881705
Subjects: Uighur (Turkic people) -- Asia, Central; Uighur (Turkic people -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) -- Relations -- Asia, Central; Asia, Central -- Relations -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu; Asia, Central -- History; China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: China, Xinjiang and Central Asia : "glocality" in the year 2007 / Donald H. McMillen; title: The "centrality" of Central Asia in world history, 1700-2007: from pivot to periphery and back again? / Michael Clarke; title: Positioning Xinjiang in Eurasian and Chinese history: differing visions of the "Silk Road" / James A. Millward; title: "Failed states" on the "perilous frontier": historical bases of state formation in Afghanistan and Central Asia / Geoff Watson; title: Xinjiang and Central Asia: interdependency, not integration / Ann McMillan; title: Uyghurs in the Central Asian republics: past and present / Ablet Kamalov; title: Xinjiang and Central Asia since 1990: views from Beijing and Washington and Sino-American relations / Colin Mackerras; title: Central Asia's domestic stability in official Russian security thinking under Yeltsin and Putin: from hegemony to multilateral pragmatism / Kirill Nourzhanov; title: "Glocality", "silk roads" and new and little "great games" in Xinjiang and Central Asia / Michael Clarke.