Xinjiang China's forgotten occupation
By: Box, Dan.
Subject(s): Ecology | Human Ecology | Xinjiang | Indigenous Uyghur-China | Uyghur | Oil and Gas Reserve-Kashgar | Anthropology | Environmental Threat-Xinijiang Culture-China In: The Ecologist 33(7)Summary: Every one heard of Tibet's struggle against the Chinese government. But further north, in the little known province of Xinijiang, another people's culture is being destroyed...and no one is doing anything about it. Isolated by the surrounding desert, Kashgar was once an oasis on the old Silk Road. Now the city is being overwhelmed in the rush to open up the region's oil and gas reserves.Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Every one heard of Tibet's struggle against the Chinese government. But further north, in the little known province of Xinijiang, another people's culture is being destroyed...and no one is doing anything about it. Isolated by the surrounding desert, Kashgar was once an oasis on the old Silk Road. Now the city is being overwhelmed in the rush to open up the region's oil and gas reserves.