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The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) is a vast territory in the northwest of China, home to the Muslim Uyghur, one of China’s largest minority groups. The region was incorporated into the Chinese Empire late in the Qing Dynasty. In a largely inhabitable desert and mountainous environment, communities were scattered in oasis settlements along trade routes that connected China to Central Asia and the West. Traditional economy was based on irrigation agriculture, nomadic pastoralism, and trade. Under the People’s Republic of China, the region’s geopolitical importance and abundance of mineral resources including oil has led to rapid development and an influx of Han Chinese.

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Demographic and economic changes in the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Cheng, P'ing	Xinjiang, the land and the people	1989
Freeberne, Michael	Demographic and economic changes in the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region	1966
Lattimore, Owen	Pivot of Asia	1950
Norins, Martin Richard	Gateway to Asia	1944
Raczka, Witt	Xinjiang and its Central Asian borderlands	1998
Rahman, Anwar	Sinicization beyond the Great Wall	2005
Skoggard, Ian A.	Culture summary	2019

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

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