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China's Borderlands - The Faultline of Central Asia (Hardcover)
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China's Borderlands - The Faultline of Central Asia (Hardcover)
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This region - which marks the meeting of China and post-Soviet
Central Asia - is increasingly important militarily, economically
and geographically. Yet we know little of the people that live
there, beyond a romanticised 'Silk Road' sense of fraternity. In
fact, relations between the people of this region are tense, and
border violence is escalating - even as the identity and
nationality of the people on the ground shifts to meet their new
geopolitical realities. As Steven Parham shows, many of the world's
Soviet borders have proved to be deeply unstable and, in the end,
impermanent. Meanwhile, the looming presence of Modern China and
Russia, who are funneling money and military resources into the
region - partly to fight what they see as a growing Islamic
activism - are adding fuel to the fire. This lyrical, intelligent
book functions as part travelogue, part sociological exploration,
and is based on a unique body of research - five months trekking
through the checkpoints of the border regions. As China continues
to grow and become more assertive, as it has been recently in
Africa and in the South China Seas - as well as in Xinjiang -
China's borderlands have become a battleground between the Soviet
past and the Chinese future.
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