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Uyghur History Project: Uyghur History Project

Uyghur History Project: Uyghur History Project

Uyghur History Project

In the last century, China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been a theatre of international and regional conflicts, sectarian strife and social upheaval. Today, an estimated 1.5 million of Xinjiang’s native Uyghur population have been incarcerated and subjected to various forms of persecution. Understanding how history has transpired into the current reality is important, because it gives us a direction for taking meaningful action. Join our scholarly discussion on Xinjiang’s past and present, the Uyghur people and their place in the world in the 21st century.

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Xinjiang, the vast northwestern region comprising one sixth of the PRC today, borders on India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakstan, Russia and Mongolia. Since antiquity it has stood at the crossroads between China, India, the Mediterranean and Russia. In recent decades its historic silk road linkages have grown increasingly global, with issues of energy, development, separatism and terrorism bringing the region into the news. James Millward draws on primary sources and scholarly research in several European and Asian languages to provide the first general account in English of the history of Xinjiang and its peoples from earliest times to the present. We highly recommend this book as a must-read for all students of Xinjiang, Chinese frontier and Inner Asian history.