Description Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views Modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang.
By foregrounding the responses of Chinese and other imperial elites to the growing threat o.
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.
Description Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views Modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang