Introduction / S. Frederick Starr
Political and cultural history of the Xinjiang region through the late 19th century / James A. Milward and Peter C. Perdue
Political history and strategies of control, 1884-1978 / James A. Milward and Nabijan Tursun
The Chinese program of development and control, 1978-2001 / Dru C. Gladney
The great wall of steel: military and strategy in Xinjiang / Yitzhak Shichor
The economy of Xinjiang Call Wiemer
Education and social mobility among minority populations in Xinjiang / Linda Benson
A "land of borderlands": implications of Xinjiang's trans-border interactions / Sean R. Roberts
The demography of Xinjiang / Stanley W. Toops
The ecology of Xinjiang: a focus on water / Stanley W. Toops
Public health and social pathologies in Xinjiang / Jay Dautcher
Acculturation and resistance: Xinjiang identities in flux / Justin Rudelson and Jonathan N. Lipman
Islam in Xinjiang / Graham E. Fuller and Jonathan N. Lipman
Contested histories / Gardner Bovingdon, with contributions by Nabijan Tursun
Respnses to Chinese rule: patterns of cooperation and opposition / Dr C. Gladney.