Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang

ISBN-13: 9781108488402 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str.

David Tobin

Opis

David Tobin analyses how Chinese nation-building shapes identity and security dynamics between Han and Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

Recenzje

'In one of the first ethnographic works on the post-2009 policy shift towards ethnic 'fusion', Tobin eloquently illustrates how boundaries in Xinjiang have hardened to produce a tripartite 'ethno-hierarchy of insecurities'. Most compelling is his argument that the multi-ethnic, Han-centric Zhonghua minzu is fatally flawed because it entails the competing logics of an imperial civilisation (which excludes Uyghurs as 'barbarians') and a modern nation-state (which seeks to violently transform and include them). Essential reading within and beyond Xinjiang studies.' Jo Smith Finley, Newcastle University

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Securing China on the multi-ethnic frontier; 2. Mass education as an identity-security practice; 3. 'East Turkestan' in China's identity and security narratives; 4. Identity and insecurity after “7–5”; 5. Performing inclusion of the Uyghur other; 6. Han and Uyghur narratives on ethnic and national identity; 7. Han and Uyghur narratives on identity and insecurity; Conclusion: Identity and insecurity in Xinjiang; Appendix 1. Cast of characters; Appendix 2. Lyrics to “one family” – original Mandarin and English translation; Bibliography; Index.