China, Xinjiang and Central Asia history, transition and crossborder interaction into the 21st century

Includes bibliographical references and index.

China, Xinjiang and Central Asia : 'glocality' in the year 2008 / Donald H. McMillen -- The 'centrality' of Central Asia in world history, 1700-2007: from pivot to periphery and back again? / Michael Clarke -- Positioning Xinjiang in Eurasian and Chinese history : differing visions of the 'Silk Road' / James A. Millward -- 'Failed states' on the 'perilous frontier' : historical bases of state formation in Afghanistan and Central Asia / Geoff Watson -- Xinjiang and Central Asia : interdependency, not integration / Ann McMillan -- Uyghurs in the Central Asian republics : past and present / Ablet Kamalov -- Xinjiang and Central Asia since 1990 : views from Beijing and Washington and Sino-American relations / Colin Mackerras -- Central Asia's domestic stability in official Russian security thinking under Yeltsin and Putin : from hegemony to multilateral pragmatism / Kirill Nourzhanov -- 'Glocality', 'Silk Roads' and new and little 'great games' in Xinjiang and Central Asia / Michael Clarke.