1st Edition

China's Last Nomads History and Culture of China's Kazaks

By Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg Copyright 1997
    278 Pages
    by Routledge

    278 Pages
    by Routledge

    This study, based on Chinese publications and archival materials as well as on recent fieldwork, provides an up-to-date treatment of Kazak history and culture, emphasizing the Kazaks in 20th-century China and, in particular, their status today as one of China's minority nationalities.

    Introduction; Chapter 1 The Kazaks of Northwestern China: The Physical and Cultural Setting; Chapter 2 Kazaks in Central Eurasia and China to the Twentieth Century; Chapter 3 China’s Kazaks, 1912-1949; Chapter 4 CCP Minority Policy and Its Implementation in Xinjiang; Chapter 5 Life at the Local Level: Development and Change in Xinjiang’s Autonomous Kazak Areas; Chapter 6 Kazak Culture and Chinese Politics; Chapter 7 Kazakstan and China’s Kazaks in the Twenty-First Century;

    Biography

    Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg