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…
Culture and Society Xinjiang Dreams: Worrying about ethnicity November 6, 2013 1 Written by David Tobin. The ethnically targeted violence of July 2009 in Ürümchi overshadowed the lead-up to the 60th anniversary of the founding of the…
