ISBN:
9781315770475
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 267 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
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24 cm
Series Statement:
Routledge contemporary China series 137
Series Statement:
Routledge contemporary China series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Inside Xinjiang
DDC:
306.09516
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
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Uighur (Turkic people) China
;
Xinjiang Uyghur
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Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) Social policy
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Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) Social conditions
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Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) Ethnic relations
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Sinkiang
Abstract:
"The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is China's largest province, shares borders with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and Mongolia, and possesses a variety of natural resources, including oil. The tensions between ethnic Muslim Uyghurs and the growing number of Han Chinese in Xinjiang have recently increased, occasionally breaking out into violence. At the same time as being a potential troublespot for China, the province is of increasing strategic significance as China's gateway to Central Asia whose natural resources are of increasing importance to China. This book focuses in particular on what life is like in Xinjiang for the diverse population that lives there. It offers important insights into the social, economic and political terrains of Xinjiang, concentrating especially on how current trends in Xinjiang are likely to develop in the future. In doing so it provides a broader understanding of the region and its peoples"--
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