Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang

In many ways the history of Xinjiang is in exile like its many dissidents, such as Rebiya Kadeer. The People’s Republic of China, in whose uneasy embrace it lies, has enforced a strictly patriotic historical narrative that disallows the complexity suggested by the province’s various identities throughout history: Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Nestorian Chris…