books.google.com - Eastern Turkestan, now known as Xinjiang or the New Territory, makes up a sixth of China's land mass. Absorbed by the Qing in the 1880s and reconquered by Mao in 1949, this Turkic-Muslim region of China's remote northwest borders on formerly Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Mongolia, and Tibet,...https://books.google.com/books/about/Xinjiang.html?id=GXj4a3gss8wC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareXinjiang