The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land

À cette fin, la ND va notamment mobiliser, avec une grande habileté intellectuelle, le Claude Lévi-Strauss de Race et histoire ou du Regard éloigné, ouvrage où le grand anthropologue français invitait chaque culture à «s’opposer à celles qui l’environnent, à se distinguer d’elles, en un mot à être soi162». Elle va également s’appuyer sur le concept

I will pursue the Chinese political-religious context – particularly as it deals with neo-Confucianism and the redemptive societies –…

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Indeed, the Great Leap Forward, which was launched in China in 1958–9, exemplifies both the utopian vision and the controlled mobilization of identity (which also applies to the Cultural Revolution) that can accompany modern universalisms.

Nationalism is probably the most successful of modern techniques of creating commitment and resolve. But we will see how it too depends on the old religious values of sacrifice and suffering. Indeed, nationalisms also posit a transcendent point of reference that exceeds locality, family and other particularisms for the sake of the ‘imagined communi