An East Gate Book Copyright © 1990 by M. E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, New York 10504 Available in the United Kingdom and Europe from M. E. Sharpe, Publishers, 3 Henrietta Street, London WC2E 8LU. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Benson Linda K. The Ili rebellion: the Moslem challenge to Chinese authority in Xinjiang, 1944-1949 / by Linda K. Benson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87332-509-5 1. Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region ( China)--History 2. Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region ( China)--Ethnic Relations. 3. I-li Ha-sa-k'o tzu chih chou ( China)--History 4. I-li Ha-sa-k'o tzu chih chou ( China)--Ethnic relations. 5. China--Ethnic relations. I. Title. DS793.S62B37 1989 89-37237 951′.6--dc20 CIP Printed in the United States of America ∞ + ⃝ ED 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 -iv- |