| Contents |
Setting the stage -- China, the USSR, and the emergence of Uyghurs -- Moderation and ensuing violence, 1976-2000 -- "Carrots and sticks" in the twenty-first century. |
| Abstract |
This balanced history of Xinjiang and its Uyghur inhabitants traces the development of this ethnic group from imperial China to the present and its fraught relationship with the Chinese state. Morris Rossabi focuses especially on CCP policies, both progressive and repressive, toward the Uyghurs since 1949. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-155) and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781538162996 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781538162989 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1538162989 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781538162972 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1538162970 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ePub ebook) |
