Natural resources and the new frontier : constructing modern China's borderlands
Judd C. Kinzley
Klappentext: 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 offers a new way of viewing Xinjiang that will shape the conversation about this important region. Moreover, his detailed analysis offers a new way of viewing borders as sites of "layered" state formation that will serve as a model for understanding the development of other Chinese peripheries and, more generally, the development of frontier zones across the Global South.
Year of publication: |
2018
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Authors: | Kinzley, Judd C. |
Publisher: |
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press |
Subject: | Xinjiang | Natürliche Ressourcen | Natural resources | Industrialisierung | Industrialization | Regionalentwicklung | Regional development | Soziale Beziehungen | Social relations | Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen | International economic relations | Grenzregion | Border region | Regionalpolitik | Regional policy | China | Sowjetunion | USSR | Sinkiang | Staat | Wirtschaftsbeziehungen | Geschichte |
Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] ; Abstract [press.uchicago.edu] |
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Extent: | ix, 234 Seiten Illustrationen |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: | 0-226-49215-X ; 978-0-226-49229-2 ; 978-0-226-49215-5 ; 0-226-49229-X ; 978-0-226-49232-2 |
Other identifiers: | 10.7208/chicago/9780226492322.001.0001 [DOI] |
Classification: | Regionalwirtschaft |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738253
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