Xinjiang in the Twenty-First Century: Islam, Ethnicity and Resistance

by Michael Dillon

There has been a significant increase in the twenty-first century in the frequency and intensity of violent incidents in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the far northwest province of China, where the Uyghurs, the Turkic-speaking Muslim people who historically constituted the majority population, feel themselves displaced and discriminated against by the growing in-migration of Han Chinese. The book explores the continuing unrest in Xinjiang...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367585685
• ISBN13: 9780367585686
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"