Clarke Michael E. Xinjiang and China's rise in Central Asia - a history

Lndon & New York: Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2011. — xiv; 207 p. ISBN13: 978-0-415-58456-2 (hbk); ISBN13: 978-0-203-83111-3 (ebk)The book traces the development of Xinjiang-from the collapse of the Qing Empire in the early twentieth century to the present - and argues that there is a largely complementary relationship between China's Xinjiang, Central Asia and grand strategy-derived interests. This pattern of interests informs and shapes China's diplomacy in Central Asia and its approach to the governance of Xinjiang. Michael E. Clarke shows how China's concerns and policies, although pursued with vigour in recent decades, are of long standing, and how domestic problems and policies in Xinjiang have for a long time been closely bound up with wider international relations issues.