Table of Contents:
  • Political leaders of Xinjiang
  • Introduction: Xinjiang and the dead hand of history
  • Xinjiang and the Uyghurs: an overview
  • Part 1: Deep roots of the Xinjiang conflict
  • Turkic Muslims and the Chinese state: a history of conflict
  • Escalation of violence in the 1990s
  • China's Western Development Programme and Xinjiang
  • Part 2: Urumqi, Kashgar, Khotan: 2009-2015
  • Two days that shook Urumqi July 2009
  • Kashgar and Khotan since 2010-11: Islam, ethnicity, and traditional Uyghur culture in southern Xinjiang
  • Xi Jinping administration and Xinjiang: widening conflict and the search for new strategies
  • Part 3: Conflict and resolution in Xinjiang: the Xi Jinping era
  • Xinjiang and China's evolving policy on terrorism (2009-18)
  • Conflict in Xinjiang and its resolution.