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3 2 4Islam i n World Cult u r e sInternet ResourcesThere are several excellent English-language Web sites devoted to Central Asiaor prominently featuring Central Asian material. Perhaps the best portal intoc o n t e m p o r a ry scholarship on the region is the Central Eurasian Studies Wo r l dWide site Resources for the Study of Central Eurasia (http://cesww. f a s . h a rv a r d.edu). For a general introduction to the region and its culture, see the delightfulSilk Road Seattle site maintained by the University of Washington athttp://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/exhibit/index.shtml. News fromthe region can be followed at a number of sites. The Eurasia Net Web site( h t t p : / / w w w.eurasianet.org), supported by the Open Society Institute of theSoros Foundation, is the preeminent portal for current affairs in the region.The London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting (http://www. i w p r.net) provides weekly news analysis. Human Rights Watch has maintainedan office in Tashkent since the early 1990s and maintains a Web page on CentralAsia (http://www. h rw.org/campaigns/cenasia/index.shtml), where issuesof religious freedom are prominently featured.6. Islam in China: Accommodation or Separatism?Secondary StudiesF l e t c h e r, Joseph. 1996. Studies on Chinese and Islamic Inner Asia. Edited by BeatriceManz. London: Variorum Press.This collection of essays is still the leading reference work for scholars interestedin connections among the Islamic societies in the Middle East, acrossEurasia, and in China.Forbes, Andrew D. W. 1986. Wa r l o rds and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia. C a m-bridge: Cambridge University Press.This is the best overview available in English of the internecine politics dividingChina’s Muslims, as well as a good introduction to the region nowknown as Xinjiang during the first half of the last century, before the Muslimsof Xinjiang were finally and fully incorporated into the Chinese state.G l a d n e y, Dru C. 1996. Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People’s Republi c . 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.This work is the leading ethnographic study of China’s Muslim nationalities,with four case studies of Muslim communities across China.