In July 2009, violence erupted among Uyghurs, Chinese state police, and Han residents of Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang, in northwest China, making international headlines, and introducing many to tensions in the area. But conflict in the region has deep roots. Now available in paperback, Holy War in China remains the first comprehensive and balanced history of a late nineteenth-century Muslim rebellion in Xinjiang, which led to the establishment of an independent Islamic state under Ya'qūb Beg. That independence was lost in 1877, when the Qing army recaptured the region and...
In July 2009, violence erupted among Uyghurs, Chinese state police, and Han residents of Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang, in northwest China, mak...
