CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Note on Romanization

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Using the Past to Serve the Present

2. Heteronomy and Its Discontents

3. Everyday Resistance:

Guerrilla Actions in the Battle over Public Opinion

4. Collective Action and Violence

5. Uyghur Transnational Organizations

Conclusion

Epilogue:

Ürümci’s “Hot Summer” of 2009

Appendix: Organized Protests and Violent Events in Xinjiang, 1949–2005

Notes

References

Index