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Can I read Wild West China : the taming of Xinjiang on EtoBox?
Wild West China : the taming of Xinjiang by Christian C Tyler is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Wild West China : the taming of Xinjiang about?
Closed to the world for half a century, like a black hole in the Asian landmass, the wilderness of Xinjiang in northwest China is returning to the light. The picture it presents is both fascinating and disturbing. Despite a savage landscape and climate, Xinjiang has a rich past: sand-buried cities, painted cave shrines, rare creatures, and wonderfully preserved mummies of European appearance. Their descendants, the Uighurs, still farm the tranquil oases that ring the dreaded Taklamakan, the world’s second largest sand desert, and the Kazakh and Kirghiz herdsmen still roam the mountains. The region’s history, however, has been punctuated by violence, usually provoked by ambitious outsiders—nomad chieftains from the north, Muslim emirs from Central Asia, Russian generals, or warlords from inner China. The Chinese regard the far west as a barbarian land. Only in the 1760s did they subdue it, and even then their rule was repeatedly broken. Compared with the Russians’ conquest of Siberia, or the Americans’ trek west, China’s colonization of Xinjiang has been late and difficult. The Communists have done most to develop it, as a penal colony, as a buffer against invasion, and as a supplie
Who reads Wild West China : the taming of Xinjiang?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Christian C Tyler
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813535333
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, History, Asian History
- Rating
- 3.54 / 5 (33 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14