Christian Tyler is a former staff writer of the Financial Times of London. He has reported on industry, politics and international trade, and has travelled widely in China. He is married to the actress Ciaran Madden, has three children and a stepchild, and lives in Dorset.
A fascinating book ... following in the footsteps of Peter Fleming, Tyler paints a vivid portrait of Xinjiang and reminds us of another of the immense problems facing China's new leadership - Chris Patten Christian Tyler is an excellent reporter While there is a body of academic work on Xinjiang and some lurid travellers tales, what is needed is a book for the general reader. This he has quite brilliantly produced. In vigorous, clear language, he manages to give a comprehensive account of Xinjiang s long, tangled and violent history as well as a closely observed survey of the current situation, which he neatly summarises - Jonathan Mirsky, Literary Review An important and timely book. It is not only the first popular history of Xinjiang, but also an expose of China s colonial oppression Christian Tyler has assembled a detailed and forceful narrative whose span is enormous Inevitably he leaves open the question of whether there is any future for the Uighur in their homeland, and whether the book will rank as a watershed, or a requiem. - Colin Thubron, Sunday Times An excellent and engrossing portrait, the first of its kind for the general reader Wild West China first presents a credible account of the Tarim Basin s history, which until now had been sketchy at best. Then it delivers a meticulously sourced and hard-won anatomy of a contemporary cultural as
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