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Although Xinjiang as a whole is designated as a "Uyghur Autonomous Region", since 1954 more than 50% of Xinjiang's land area are designated autonomous areas for 13 native non-Uyghur groups. [261] However, the borders were drawn so that no ethnic minority could exercise autonomy where they composed a majority.
Twitchett, Denis (2009), The Cambridge History of China Volume 5 The Sung dynasty and its Predecessors, 907-1279, Cambridge University Press; Wang, Zhenping (2013), Tang China in Multi-Polar Asia: A History of Diplomacy and War, University of Hawaii Press; Wilkinson, Endymion (2015). Chinese History: A New Manual, 4th edition. Cambridge, MA ...
The Han Communists in the central government denied the name Xinjiang was colonialist and denied that the central government could be colonialists both because they were communists and because China was a victim of colonialism. However, due to the Uyghur complaints, the administrative region would be named "Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region ...
The Manchu-led Qing dynasty of China ruled over Xinjiang from the late 1750s to 1912. In the history of Xinjiang, the Qing rule was established in the final phase of the Dzungar–Qing Wars when the Dzungar Khanate was conquered by the Qing dynasty, and lasted until the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1912.
The province's final status was instituted in 1955 as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of which Saifuddin Azizi became its first chairman, when it was reorganised into an autonomous region for the 13 nationalities of Xinjiang (Uyghur, Han Chinese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Hui, Mongol, Tajik, Uzbek, Tatar, Russian, Xibe, Daur, Manchu people), thus ...
Xinjiang Province, Republic of China (Xinjiang clique; 1st East Turkestan Republic; 2nd East Turkestan Republic) Xinjiang Province, People's Republic of China; Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Production and Construction Corps; Xinjiang conflict. Xinjiang internment camps / Persecution of Uyghurs in China
Xinjiang (新疆; Uyghur: شىنجاڭ), alternatively romanized as Sinkiang, is an area located in Central Asia, between 73 ° 5 'to 96 ° 4' east and 35 ° 5 'and 49 ° north, in total 1,660,000 square km, sharing borders with Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province and Gansu Province.
Xinjiang province of Qing dynasty (1884–1912) Xinjiang of ROC (1912–1949) Xinjiang of PRC (1949–present) Xinjiang Province is a historical administrative area of Northwest China, between 1884 and 1955. Periods during which various boundaries of Xinjiang Province have been defined include: Xinjiang Province (Qing) (1884–1912).