Rudelson draws on extensive fieldwork in the oasis of Turpan in this scholarly study of the movement for a pan-Uyghur identity in Xinjiang. Rudelson, executive director of the Institute for Global Chinese Affairs at the University of Maryland and an anthropologist, is also the author of the Lonely Planet Central Asia Phrasebook as well as the Hebrew Phrasebook and Mandarin Phrasebook.  (CAS92, $28.50)