Description
Book SynopsisEurasian Crossroads is an engaging and comprehensive account of Xinjiang’s history and people from earliest times to the present day. This revised and updated edition features new empirically grounded and balanced analysis of developments in the region up to the present, focusing on the circumstances of the Uyghur and Xinjiang peoples.
Trade ReviewEurasian Crossroads remains the best introduction to the history of this region. It draws out key phenomena and questions for each period, building from ecology and archaeology to ethnic politics. This edition includes an accessible analysis of contemporary events in context. This book was once pathbreaking—today it is essential. -- Eric Schluessel, author of
Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central AsiaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
List of Maps and Figures
Preface and Acknowledgements
Preface to the Revised and Updated Edition
Maps
1. Ancient Encounters (earliest times–8th century)
2. Central Eurasia Ascendant (9th–16th centuries)
3. Between Islam and China (16th–19th centuries)
4. Between Empire and Nation (late 19th–early 20th century)
5. Between China and the Soviet Union (1910s–1940s)
6. In the People’s Republic of China (1950s–1980s)
7. Between China and the World (1990s–2000s)
8. Colonialism, Assimilationism and Ethnocide (2000s–2020s)
Appendix: Xinjiang Historical Timeline
General Bibliography
Index
