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Inside Xinjiang
The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is China’s largest province, shares borders with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and Mongolia, and possesses a variety of natural resources, including oil. The tensions between ethnic Muslim Uyghurs and the growing number of Han Chinese in Xinjiang have recently increased, occasionally breaking out into violence. At the same time as being a potential troublespot for China, the province is of increasing strategic significance as China’s gateway to Central Asia whose natural resources are of increasing importance to China. This book focuses in particular on what life is like in Xinjiang for the diverse population that lives there. It offers important insights into the social, economic and political terrains of Xinjiang, concentrating especially on how current trends in Xinjiang are likely to develop in the future. In doing so it provides a broader understanding of the region and its peoples.
Reporting Skin and the Wounded Body in Victorian Britain
"Garrisi's Reporting Skin and the Wounded Body in Victorian Britain is one of the most provocative--and important - books I've read in many years: strikingly original, immaculately researched, elegantly argued, and profoundly compassionate. By taking us on a deep dive into the world of Victorian Britain's fascination with skin--exploring real-life tales of violence to the flesh and disfigurement--the author reveals how journalists used such stories to illustrate nineteenth century debates about poverty, injustice, crime and social malaise. In doing so, Garrisi deploys her command of rhetoric to challenge some of our easy assumptions about the culture of the Victorians and ends up giving us a...
East Turkistan's Right to Sovereignty
This study examines the relationship between the People’s Republic of China and the people of East Turkistan; specifically, between China’s settler colonialism and East Turkistan’s independence movement. What distinguishes this study is its dispassionate analysis of the East Turkistan’s national dilemma in terms of international law and legal precedent as well as the prudence with which it distinguishes substantial evidence from claims of China’s crimes against humanity and genocide in East Turkistan that have not been fully verified yet. The author demonstrates how other states have ignored the nature of that relationship and so avoided asking key questions about East Turkistan th...
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Chinese Soft Power and Public Diplomacy in the United States
This book explores Chinese soft power and public diplomacy, and the way that it has played out in the context of the US-China relationship. As tensions between the two countries have grown in recent years, Chinese foreign policy has oscillated between confrontation and conciliation. In this work, which integrates all facets of China’s public diplomacy especially towards United States, the author explores the past and future of Chinese soft power, in a text that will interest diplomats, scholars and journalists.
Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in China
China, hitherto barely affected by terrorism, now confronts a phenomenon all too familiar to other nations.
Handbook on Local Governance in China
Demonstrating the crucial importance of local governance in China’s development and international relations, this topical Handbook combines theoretical approaches with novel methodological tools to understand state–society relations at the local level.
Socio-Economic Development in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
In an unprecedented exploration of space and power in rural Xinjiang, a Chinese region home to the Muslim population of the Uyghurs, this book adopts a grounded theory approach and a trans-ethnic perspective into the complex and sensitive topic of land issues and agricultural land evictions in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. By exposing the dynamics of land acquisition and power building in the politically contested space of the region, the author shows how state owned land in a key commercial and cultural hub on the new Silk Road became a commodity, in a context of violent human interactions driven by power. Relying on previously undisclosed material and on a unique field research among ...
Power, Poverty and Positionality in Contemporary China
Power, Poverty and Positionality in Contemporary China explores the multiple declinations of poverty and power by introducing two new key concepts: 'space of mind' and 'pensabilities'. Taking authoritarian China as focus, the author provides an insight into how power fills peoples' space of mind with elements external to individual and collective life and hinders the natural and healthy development of a person's and collectivity's pensabilities. Drawing from Amartya Sen's idea of capabilities, the author conceives a new perspective to look at poverty and power dynamics in the contemporary world, by putting forward a fresh concept which will change our understanding of power both within the a...
