Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland by S. Frederick Starr

Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland

S. Frederick Starr

528 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Eastern Turkestan, now known as Xinjiang or the New Territory, makes up a sixth of China's land mass. Absorbed by the Qing in the 1880s and reconquered by Mao in 1949, this Turkic-Muslim region of China's remote northwest borders on formerly Sovie...

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