Volume 54, Number 17 · November 8, 2007
China's Area of Darkness
By Jonathan Mirsky
Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang
by James A. Millward
Columbia University Press, 440 pp., $40.00
The very first anonymous star on the CIA's wall of honor at Langley, Virginia (the agency rarely identifies its dead heroes), refers to Douglas MacKiernan, the agency's man in Urumqi, the capital of what is now called the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China's largest province, a region of some one million square miles in the country's northwest corner, about one thousand miles west of Beijing.
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