China's Last Nomads: History and Culture of China's Kazaks

ISBN-13: 9781563247828 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 278 str.

Linda Benson; Ingvar Svanberg

Opis

This study, based on Chinese publications and archival materials as well as on recent fieldwork, provides an up-to-date treatment of Kazak history and culture, emphasizing the Kazaks in 20th-century China and, in particular, their status today as one of China's minority nationalities.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Kazaks of Northwestern China: The Physical and Cultural Setting; Chapter 2 Kazaks in Central Eurasia and China to the Twentieth Century; Chapter 3 China’s Kazaks, 1912-1949; Chapter 4 CCP Minority Policy and Its Implementation in Xinjiang; Chapter 5 Life at the Local Level: Development and Change in Xinjiang’s Autonomous Kazak Areas; Chapter 6 Kazak Culture and Chinese Politics; Chapter 7 Kazakstan and China’s Kazaks in the Twenty-First Century;

O autorze

Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg