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

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.
eBook, English, 2016
Taylor and Francis, 2016
History
1 online resource
9781315285207, 9780765640598, 1315285207, 0765640597
959428547
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;