Kinzley, Judd C. (Author)
The University of Chicago Press
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Language: English
China's westernmost province of Xinjiang has experienced escalating violence, cycles of interethnic strife, and state repression since the 1990s. Searching for the roots of these growing tensions, most of the research on the region has tended to zero in on ethnic clashes and political disputes. In Natural Resources and the New Frontier, historian Judd Kinzley takes a different approach-one that works from the ground up to explore the infrastructural and material basis for state power in the region and how it helped create and shape these tensions. As Kinzley argues, Xinjiang's role in producing various natural resources for regional powers served as an important, but largely overlooked factor in fueling unrest. He carefully traces the buildup to this unstable situation over the course of the twentieth century by focusing on shifts in mining and industrial production policies that were undertaken by Chinese, Soviet, and provincial officials. Through his detailed archival work, Kinzley offers a new way of viewing Xinjiang that will shape the conversation about this important region. Moreover, his detailed analysis offers a new way of viewing borders as sites of "layered" state formation that will serve as a model for understanding the development of other Chinese peripheries and, more generally, the development of frontier zones across the Global South.
...MoreEssay Review Högselius, Per (June 2020) The Historical Dynamics of Resource Frontiers. NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin (pp. 253-266).
Review Per Högselius (2020) Review of "Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World". NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin (pp. 253-266).
Review David Brophy (Winter 2018) Review of "Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China's Borderlands". Business History Review (pp. 796-799).
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