Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State / Justin M. Jacobs.

• VerfasserIn: Jacobs, Justin M.,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : University of Washington Press,, [2016]; ©[2016]
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on ethnic groups in China.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui, Mongols, Kirgiz, and Tajiks, is also the last significant “colony” of the former Qing empire to remain under continuous Chinese rule throughout the twentieth century. By foregrounding the responses of Chinese and other imperial elites to the growing threat of national determination across Eurasia, Justin Jacobs argues for a reconceptualization of the modern Chinese state as a “national empire.” He shows how strategies for administering this region in the late Qing, Republican, and Communist eras were molded by, and shaped in response to, the rival platforms of ethnic difference characterized by Soviet and other geopolitical competitors across Inner and East Asia.This riveting narrative tracks Xinjiang political history through the Bolshevik revolution, the warlord years, Chinese civil war, and the large-scale Han immigration in the People’s Republic of China, as well as the efforts of the exiled Xinjiang government in Taiwan after 1949 to claim the loyalty of Xinjiang refugees.

Table of Contents

Cover; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Imperial Repertoires in Republican Xinjiang; 2. Collapse of Empires and the Nationalist Threat; 3. Rise of the Ethnopopulists; 4. Raising the Stakes in Nationalist Xinjiang; 5. The Birth Pangs of Chinese Affirmative Action; 6. The Xinjiang Government in Exile; Conclusion; NOTES; GLOSSARY OF CHINESE CHARACTERS; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; S; T; U; W; X; Y; Z; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z