Based on what you have Learned, do you feel that, in the twentieth century, Xinjiang/East Turkestan continued to experience a history of Colonialism?

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Xinjiang/East Turkestan in the twentieth century.

Read the following 2 chapters of Gardner Bovingdon’s The Uyghurs and answer the questions that follows:

  • Strangers in Their Own Land.
  • Two well-known authorities.

How do the PRC and the Congress differently explain the history of the region? Pick 3 or 4 factual matters of interpretations. Why do they have these differing interpretations? Which do you find to be the most accurate?

Based on what you have Learned, do you feel that, in the twentieth century, Xinjiang/East Turkestan continued to experience a history of colonialism?

  • For citations, use a simplified Chicago style.
  • Insert footnote and for it, Bovingdon, Uyghurs, 20. Millward and Tursun, “Political History,” 30