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PEOPLE, PLACE, RACE, AND NATION IN XINJIANG, CHINA IBD

DAVID O?BRIEN / MELISSA SHANI BROWN
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
11 / 2022
9789811937774
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Sinopsis

In one of the only works drawing on interviews with both Uyghurs and Han in Xinjiang, China, and postcolonial perspectives on ethnicity, nation, and race, this book explores how forms of banal racism underpin ideas of self and other, assimilation and modernisation, in this restive region. Significant international attention has condemned the CCPâÇÖs use of forced internment in âÇÖre-educationâÇÖ camps, as well as its campaign of cultural assimilation. In this wider context, this book focuses upon the ways in which ethnic difference is writ through the banalities of everyday life: who one trusts, what one eats, where one shops, even what time oneâÇÖs clocks are set to (Xinjiang being perhaps one of the only places where different ethnic groups live by different time-zones).Alongside chapters focusing upon the coercive âÇÖre-educationâÇÖ campaign, and the devastating Ãúrümchi Riots in 2009, this book also unpacks how discourses of Chinese nationalism romanticise empire and promote racialised ways of thinking about Chineseness, how cultural assimilation (âÇÖSinicisationâÇÖ) is being justified through the rhetoric of âÇÖmodernisationâÇÖ, how Islamic sites and Uyghur culture are being secularised and commodified for tourist consumption. We also explore Uyghur and Han perspectives, including of each other, giving insight into the diversity of opinions within both groups.Based on many years of living and working in China, and fieldwork and interviews specifically in Xinjiang, this book will be valuable to a variety of readers interested in the region and Uyghur and Han identity, ethnic/national identities in contemporary China, and racisms in non-western contexts.áá