
The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land

Finally, they worked for decades to make a persuasive case that the Chinese Communist Party's rejection of Lenin's principle of self-determination was doctrinally sound and to provide theoretical justifications for the system of "minzu regional autonomy" (minzu quyu zizhi)
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Muhammad Imin and Alptekin fled Xinjiang in 1949 and later…
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As a consequence, resistance takes particular forms under particular structures of domination, to use Scott's expression, or what Foucault describes as relations of power.
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five million by…
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conquest was sanguinary and ruthless: under the orders of Emperor Qianlong,the Qing troops were not to stop until they had killed or routed nearly the entire…
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Demonstrations are formally legal but suppressed in practice; until July zooq, no major organized protest had taken place in Xinjiang since 1997.
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officials still worry about the "internationalization" of affairs in Xinjiang, as…
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It is clear that differences of physiognomy, habitus, religion, and socioeconomic status distinguish Uyghurs from Hans and that the differential treatment of these groups by the party-state has contributed to the gulf between them; this is one of the main points of chapter a.
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The region was chosen, for instance, for the relocation of a portion of the villagers displaced by…
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