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China´s Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State
Nick Holdstock
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Description for China´s Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State
Paperback. Lifting the lid on China's secret struggle with home-grown Islamic Terrorism Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; HBJF; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 314.
One of the few Western commentators to have lived in the region, journalist Nick Holdstock travels into the heart of the province reveals the Uyghur story as one of repression and hardship. With Islamic terrorism in China likely to increase over the next decade, how the Party responds will have global repercussions. China's Forgotten People explains why terrorism is on the rise in the world's most powerful one-party state, and what this means for the way we think about China.
One of the few Western commentators to have lived in the region, journalist Nick Holdstock travels into the heart of the province reveals the Uyghur story as one of repression and hardship. With Islamic terrorism in China likely to increase over the next decade, how the Party responds will have global repercussions. China's Forgotten People explains why terrorism is on the rise in the world's most powerful one-party state, and what this means for the way we think about China.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784531409
SKU
V9781784531409
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99-50
About Nick Holdstock
Nick Holdstock is a journalist and writer. He has written on Xinjiang for the London Review of Books and his writing can also be found in Vice, the LA Review of Books, n+1, the Independent, the Dublin Review, the Edinburgh Review, Dissent and Salon.com amongst others. He has worked with Isabel Hilton at China Dialogue - part of the Guardian ... Read more
Reviews for China´s Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State
Lucid and up-to-date [Nick Holdstock] makes the case for a deeper understanding of Xinjiang at the moment, a combination of official defensiveness in China and politicisation of agendas outside means that dialogue on this crucial issue barely exists. It is to be hoped that Nick Holdstock s book and others like it will stimulate precisely this sort of dialogue. Without ... Read more