The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land

Many particularly regret the infighting among intellectuals, whom they expected to take the lead in…

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In chapter 3 I describe many Uyghurs' everyday strategies for criticizing and defying the system of governance they find so objectionable. I contend that while these strategies have done little to change the region's system of governance, they have nonetheless strengthened the Uyghurs' collective identity and widely disseminated information about t

underscoring the point that Uyghurs were "late" arrivals in Xinjiang, entering only…

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More than zoo shops and z5o vehicles were destroyed (…

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Three factors that Cornell identifies have been of undoubted importance in Xinjiang politics. First, formalizing the boundaries of Xinjiang and naming it the Uyghur Autonomous Region gave a convenient territorial shape to Uyghur political imaginings (Bovingdon zoozb). Second, institutionalizing minzu identities and assigning privileges on the basis

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Olivier Roy showed, for instance, that clan identities preceded ethnonational identities in Central Asia and…

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quests for self-determination. One of the few states that did offer such open support was China during the Mao era, strongly endorsing independence for East Timor, Angola,…

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In the i86os, an uprising by the Chinese Muslims of Gansu cut off Xinjiang from China proper and facilitated the…

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