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The Routledge Atlas of Central Eurasian Affairs
Providing concisely written entries on the most important current issues in Central Asia and Eurasia, this atlas offers relevant background information on the region's place in the contemporary political and economic world.
Features include:
Profiles of the constituent countries of Central Asia, namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
Profiles of Mongolia, western China, Tibet, and the three Caucasus states of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia
Timely and significant original maps and data for each entry
A comprehensive glossary, places index and subject index of major concepts, terms and regional issues
Bibliography and useful websites section
Designed for use in teaching undergraduate and graduate classes and seminars in geography, history, economics, anthropology, international relations, political science and the environment as well as regional courses on the Former Soviet Union, Central Asia, and Eurasia, this atlas is also a comprehensive reference source for libraries and scholars interested in these fields.
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The Population Landscape of Xinjiang/East Turkestan
The demographic structure of East Turkestan (Xinjiang) has undergone enormous change since the 1980s. This article profiles several factors affecting demographic change including migration, social and economic issues as well as policy implementation. The regional distinctiveness of East Turkestan (North, South, and Central) is examined through the use of maps from 1991 and 1995 that tabulate data for each county in the region. The resultant population landscape of East Turkestan is the local response to Ürümqi's regional implementation of China's national policies in the face of international forces.
Journal Article
Tourism and Turpan: The power of place in Inner Asia/Outer China
To examine the process by which Turpan China is presented as both historical relic and as \"exotic\" local culture, Toops traces the route of a typical tourist on today's new Silk Road.
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Countries and provinces
The Republic of Mongolia is the second largest landlocked state nestled between Russia, the state with the largest territory, and China, the state with the largest population.
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General reference
Scholars debate the geographical extent of the region studied in this atlas and also the term to best describe it. Eurasia could be considered as that large land mass that includes all territory east of the Urals, all the way to the northwest Pacific Ocean. Or it could encompass only the five countries in Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. This atlas includes these five states in Middle or Central Asia, but also the three states, all former Soviet republics, in the Caucasus, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, which many scholars writing about historical or contemporary events consider to have more in common culturally and politically with the Central Asian states than with Europe. Nevertheless, it is important to recognize that there remains a certain amount of ambiguity regarding the accepted territorial limits of what we term Central Eurasia.
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Historical
From their origins in southern Siberia in the third to fourth century CE Nomadic Turk peoples began developing into a power in Central Eurasia when they migrated into Mongolia. In the fifth century, Turk nomads continued toward China and then westward into what is present-day Uzbekistan. (These Turk groups continued their westward migration, so that today Turk-speaking peoples have settled from Siberia to Turkey, including Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Turkmen, Azeri and Turks.) By the sixth century, the Turk nomads united under the rule of the Göktürk confederation (\"Blue\" or \"Celestial\" Turk). As Turks continued their move westward, they controlled the Silk Road trade and became a major power in Central Eurasia. Originally Shamanistic, Turks added Buddhism, Manicheanism and Nestorian Christianity to their religious beliefs before settling on Islam.
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Cultural
One criterion that can be used to discuss the degree of westernization or modernization in a city or country is the number of references to cybercafés or Internet cafés in major cities. This is not a perfect way to measure the impact of ICTs (information and communication technologies), but is a useful surrogate when more detailed and specific governmental and intergovernmental data are lacking.
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Economic
The single most important feature about arable land in Central Eurasia is that there is very little. Arable land is land that can be used for agriculture, that is, crop and/or livestock production. The paucity of such land in Central Eurasia is clearly emphasized in the three categories in Map 31. This figure is also deceptive when mapping the percentage of arable land, in our case by country. What the map does not illustrate is the very, very small patches of arable land in much of the region.
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