CONTENTS

Map: Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region  viii

Foreword by Ben Emmerson  ix

Preface  xii

Introduction  1

1 Colonialism, 1759–2001  21

2 How the Uyghurs became a ‘terrorist threat’  63

3 Myths and realities of the alleged ‘terrorist threat’ associated with Uyghurs  97

4 Colonialism meets counterterrorism, 2002–2012  131

5 The self-fulfilling prophecy and the ‘People’s War on Terror,’ 2013–2016  161

6 Cultural genocide, 2017–2020  199

Conclusion  236

A note on methodology  252

Transliteration and place names  257

List of figures  259

List of abbreviations  260

Acknowledgments  262

Notes  266

Index  301