Eurasian crossroads : a history of Xinjiang
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Eurasian crossroads : a history of Xinjiang
Hurst, c2007
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Bibliography: p. 383-411
Includes index
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: pbk ISBN 9781849040679
内容説明
"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.
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ISBN 9781850658184
内容説明
Xinjiang, the vast northwestern region comprising one sixth of the PRC today, borders on India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakstan, Russia and Mongolia. Since antiquity it has stood at the crossroads between China, India, the Mediterranean and Russia. In recent decades its historic silk road linkages have grown increasingly global, with issues of energy, development, separatism and terrorism bringing the region into the news. James Millward draws on primary sources and scholarly research in several European and Asian languages to provide the first general account in English of the history of Xinjiang and its peoples from earliest times to the present. He discusses Xinjiang's world historical role as a commercial entrepot and cultural conduit by which Buddhism, Christianity and Islam entered China and its interactions with Tibetan, Mongol and other Inner Asian empires as well as with Chinese dynasties. "Crossswords of Eurasia" also examines the competing Chinese and Turkic nationalist visions of the region's status in modern times and the recurring dissent and rapid development under the PRC.
Within the broad perspective of this book it emerges that the factors underlying historical change in the region - its natural environment and geography, its physical location at the overlap of cultural realms and its legacy of ethno-linguistic diversity - remain as relevant to Xinjiang's future as to its past.
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