Bovingdon, Gardner.

The Uyghurs : strangers in their own land / Gardner Bovingdon. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2010. - xvi, 280 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Using the past to serve the present -- Heteronomy and its discontents -- Everyday resistance: guerrilla actions in the battle over public opinion -- Collective action and violence -- Uyghur transnational organizations.

9780231147583 (cloth : acidfree paper) 0231147589 (cloth : acidfree paper) 9780231519410 (ebook) 0231519419 (ebook)

2009052787

GBB030293 bnb

015493951 Uk


Uighur (Turkic people)--History--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--20th century.
Nationalism--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.


Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--History--Autonomy and independence movements.
China--Ethnic relations.

DS731.U4 / B68 2010

305.89/4323