China, Xinjiang and Central Asia (eBook, ePUB)

History, Transition and Crossborder Interaction into the 21st Century
Redaktion: Mackerras, Colin; Clarke, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Central Asia and Xinjiang, the far northwestern province of China, are of increasing international importance. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the region's significance historically, of the contemporary international forces which affect the region, and of current political, economic and cultural developments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134053865
• Artikelnr.: 38261728

Autorenporträt

Colin Mackerras is Professor Emeritus at Griffith University, Australia. His main works on ethnic minorities include China's Minorities: Modernization and Integration in the Twentieth Century and China's Ethnic Minorities and Globalisation. He has written a paper on the Tibetans in contemporary China for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2005. Michael Clarke is a Research Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University, Australia. He has published numerous articles on the history and contemporary politics of Xinjiang in such journals as Asian Security, Asian Studies Review, Issues & Studies and Terrorism & Political Violence.

Inhaltsangabe

1. China, Xinjiang and Central Asia - 'Glocality' in the Year 2007 Donald
H. McMillen 2. The 'Centrality' of Central Asia in World History,
1700-2007: From Pivot to Periphery and Back Again? Michael Clarke 3.
Positioning Xinjiang in Eurasian and Chinese History: Differing Visions of
the 'Silk Road' James A. Millward 4. 'Failed States' on the 'Perilous
Frontier': Historical Bases of State Formation in Afghanistan and Central
Asia Geoff Watson 5. Xinjiang and Central Asia: Interdependency - Not
Integration Ann McMillan 6. Uyghurs in the Central Asian Republics: Past
and Present Ablet Kamalov 7. Xinjiang and Central Asia since 1990: Views
from Beijing and Washington and Sino-American Relations Colin Mackerras 8.
Central Asia's Domestic Stability in Official Russian Security Thinking
under Yeltsin and Putin: From Hegemony to Multilateral Pragmatism Kirill
Nourzhanov 9. 'Glocality', 'Silk Roads' and New and Little 'Great Games' in
Xinjiang and Central Asia Michael Clarke