Sino-Soviet Cultural Frontier

The study assesses the impact of Chinese Communist rule on one of China's national minority peoples, the Kazakhs, living in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture northwest of Mongolia. The author illuminates Sino-Soviet relations as well as the national minority policy of the Chinese Communist Party, for by the winter of 1963-1964, when the basic research for the present monograph was undertaken, events in the Kazakh area of Sinkiang had made it an issue in the relations between the two states.