When the doors ot China's interior areas opened more widely as a result of Deng Xiaoping's economic reform, Barnett decided to retrace journeys that were now four decades in the past. In 1988, he revisited Inner Mongolia, the arc of Hui Muslim araes in the northwest, the Uighur and Kazakh regions in Xinjiang, the Tibetan enclaves in Qinghai and western Sichuan, and Yunan's multiethnic regions.

Containing remarkably comprehensive profiles of each area the author visited, the book is full of detailed information about government and politics, economic development, social changes, and relations between ethnic groups. Barnett comments on continuities, but he is clearly most impressed by the extent of the changes he saw. The spread of industrialization, a remarkable communications revolution, rising living standards, and increasing contacts with the rest of China and the world had catapulted the region into the modern world.

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