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New. China's westernmost province of Xinjiang has experienced escalating violence, cycles of interethnic strife, and state repression since the 1990s. Searching for the roots of these growing tensions, most of the research on the region has tended to zero in on ethnic clashes and political disputes. In Natural Resources and the New Frontier, historian Judd Kinzley takes a different approach-one that works from the ground up to explore the infrastructural and material basis for state power in the region and how it helped create and shape these tensions. As Kinzley argues, Xinjiang's role in producing various natural resources for regional powers served as an important, but largely overlooked factor in fueling unrest. He carefully traces the buildup to this unstable situation over the course of the twentieth century by focusing on shifts in mining and industrial production policies that were undertaken by Chinese, Soviet, and provincial officials. Through his detailed archival work, Kinzley…
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- Title Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China's Borderlands
- Author Judd C. Kinzley
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780226492155 / 022649215X
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6.2 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 15.75 x 1.78 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress subjects Industrialization - China, China - Foreign economic relations - Soviet
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017044567
- Dewey Decimal Code 333.709
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