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THE SINKIANG STORY is the first published account in more than a century of China's westernmost province. It is an invaluable contribution to the annals of world history, offering a long forbidden, long overdue, in-depth portrait of the most zealously guarded and remote land on earth.
From its steppes, nomads fanned out across the continent long before recorded time. Its Silk Road-the richest caravan route in history-linked the far reaches of the known world. Here China met Greece, Persia, India, Byzantium, and the Arab East. Within its melting pot, advanced and esoteric philosophies flourished. Genghiz Khan and Tamerlane overran it. Marco Polo held Western explorers spellbound by wondrous tales of it. Nineteenth-century imperial powers tried to divide and conquer it.
But then the borders were sealed shut. For more than a century there was silence, while the Western world eagerly awaited some clue to its past and present way of life.
Only recently was the veil of secrecy lifted and a small group of travellers unexpectedly allowed to journey into this remote corner of the world. Jack Chen was among them. Because his father had served as a foreign minister to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, the founder of the Chinese revolution, and because Jack, himself, had worked in the people's liberation struggle, he was given access to material that no Westerner had ever been permitted to see.
The result of his exhaustive research is the first complete history of this storybook land. But for all its past splendor and achievements, Sinkiang's present, as a free and autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, and it's miraculous leap into the twentieth century will be even more startling to the Western world.
From its steppes, nomads fanned out across the continent long before recorded time. Its Silk Road-the richest caravan route in history-linked the far reaches of the known world. Here China met Greece, Persia, India, Byzantium, and the Arab East. Within its melting pot, advanced and esoteric philosophies flourished. Genghiz Khan and Tamerlane overran it. Marco Polo held Western explorers spellbound by wondrous tales of it. Nineteenth-century imperial powers tried to divide and conquer it.
But then the borders were sealed shut. For more than a century there was silence, while the Western world eagerly awaited some clue to its past and present way of life.
Only recently was the veil of secrecy lifted and a small group of travellers unexpectedly allowed to journey into this remote corner of the world. Jack Chen was among them. Because his father had served as a foreign minister to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, the founder of the Chinese revolution, and because Jack, himself, had worked in the people's liberation struggle, he was given access to material that no Westerner had ever been permitted to see.
The result of his exhaustive research is the first complete history of this storybook land. But for all its past splendor and achievements, Sinkiang's present, as a free and autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, and it's miraculous leap into the twentieth century will be even more startling to the Western world.