China China’s decimation of Uyghur minds October 25, 2018 0 Written by Ondřej Klimeš. Academics, journalists and rights groups have recently documented the accelerating repression of the 11-million strong Uyghur population living in Xinjiang (also known…
China China’s complex ‘multiculturalism’ with ethnic and religious tensions October 19, 2018 2 Written by Daouda Cissé. In order to propel their propaganda agenda, Chinese officials often wrongly portray China as being a country with a monolithic society…
China Precious Little Space for Uyghur or Tibetan Grievances. March 21, 2016 0 Written by Elliot Sperling. It’s already been many years since anyone seriously asserted that continuing political liberalization would be the certain result of economic growth…
China The “Terror” Angle in China’s Domestic “Stability Maintenance.” March 18, 2016 1 Written by Tom Cliff. The foremost aim of Chinese authorities’ “Uyghur terror-threat” mobilisation outside Xinjiang is stability among the Han majority. Initially confined to Xinjiang,…
China The Current Status of Ethnic Policy in China March 17, 2016 0 Written by Wenshan Jia. This post discusses China’s Ethnic Policy since the 18th Party Congress. Analysis of literature on evolving theoretical and policy discourses on…
Culture and Society Cracks in China’s New Silk Road March 15, 2016 0 Written by Michael Clarke. Francis Fukuyama recently argued that President Xi Jinping’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ (OBOR) strategy ‘represents a striking departure in Chinese policy’…
China Comparing Tibet and Xinjiang through the structural dimensions of socio-economic change March 14, 2016 1 Written by Andrew Fischer. The similarities between Tibet and Xinjiang are compelling in many respects. Besides the obvious religious differences between Tibetans and Uyghurs, both…
China What Explains the Rise of Ethnic Minority Tensions in China? March 11, 2016 0 Written by Reza Hasmath. Ethnic minority tensions have been on the rise in mainland China. In mid-September 2015, a knife-wielding attack in Aksu, Xinjiang Uyghur…
China Learning Party-speak: What the New Textbook for Dislocated Minority Students Tells us about China March 8, 2016 0 Written by James Leibold and Timothy A. Grose. Over the last thirty years, China has been engaged in a poorly understood experiment in multicultural education. Since…
China Spatial Results of the 2010 Census in Xinjiang March 7, 2016 2 Written by Stanley Toops. In this entry, I profile the spatial pattern of minzu (ethnicity) and population of the 2010 census of Xinjiang. The 2010…