Holy War in China – The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 186…

Holy War in ChinaThe Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877\nAuthor(s): Hodong Kim\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804748841, 978-0804748841\nSynopsis\nIn July 2009, violence erupted among Uyghurs, Chinese state police, and Han residents of rmqi, 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'q?b Beg. That independence was lost in 1877, when the Qing army recaptured the region and incorporated it into the Chinese state, known today as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. \n\n Hodong Kim offers readers the first English-langu.