China's Forgotten People

Resumen del libro

In October 2013 a jeep ploughed through a busy crowd before exploding in Tiananmen Square. The Chinese authorities identified the driver as Uyghur - one of an Islamic ethnic minority, 10 million strong, who live in Chinas North West province of Xinjiang. Six months later, eight knife-wielding Uyghurs went on a rampage at a train station in Kunming, killing 29 people and wounding more than 140 others. These attacks, described as 'Chinas 9/11, have shaken the Chinese leadership which has cracked down hard on Xinjiang and its Uyghurs. One of the few Western commentators to have lived in the region, journalist Nick Holdstock travels into the heart of the province and reveals the Uyghur story as one of repression and hardship. As a result, Chinas Islamic population is reacting, with Islamic terrorism in China looking likely to increase over the next decade. How the Party responds will have global repercussions. This book explains why terrorism is on the rise in the worlds most powerful one-party state, and what this means for the way we think about China.