Eurasian Crossroads

A History of Xinjiang, Revised and Updated

By: James Millward

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Hardcover | 7 December 2021 | Edition Number 1

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Since antiquity, the vast Central Eurasian region of Xinjiang, or Eastern Turkestan, has stood at the crossroads of China, India, the Middle East, and Europe, playing a pivotal role in the social, cultural, and political histories of Asia and the world. Today, it comprises one-sixth of the territory of the People's Republic of China and borders India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia.

Eurasian Crossroads is an engaging and comprehensive account of Xinjiang's history and people from earliest times to the present day. Drawing on primary sources in several Asian and European languages, James A. Millward surveys Xinjiang's rich environmental and cultural heritage as well as its historical and contemporary geopolitical significance. Xinjiang was once the hub of the Silk Road and the conduit through which Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam entered China. It was also a fulcrum where Sinic, steppe nomadic, Tibetan, and Islamic imperial realms engaged and struggled. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the Han-dominated Chinese Communist Party has failed to include Xinjiang's diverse indigenous Central Asian peoples. Its nationalistic visions have spurred domestic troubles that now affect the PRC's foreign affairs and global ambitions.

This revised and updated edition features new empirically grounded and balanced analysis of the latest developments in the region, focusing on the circumstances of the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Xinjiang peoples in the face of policies implemented by the Chinese Communist Party.

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Eurasian 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 Asia

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