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...

I. Background -- II. Trade and Aid Relations, 1950–1957: Credits -- III. Trade and Aid Relations, 1950–1957: The Legal Framework of Trade -- IV. Trade and Aid Relations, 1950–1957: The Terms of Trade -- V. Trade Relations and the Sino-Soviet Dispute -- VI. Conclusions -- Documentary Appendix.