The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
"organized hypocrisy"
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
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Thus the anomalous drop in unrest in this famously contentious region cannot plausibly be attributed to the Uyghurs'…
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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
The well-known intellectual Liang Qichao lamented in 1900 that his people had no name for their country. The term that later generations adopted, Zhongguo (central state or states), he dismissed as a foreign imposition,…
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many dynasties did not rule even a part of…
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the system officially billed as providing Uyghurs "minzu regional autonomy" has in fact enforced heteronomy, as illustrated by theHans' monopoly on the most powerful party offices.Te
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Ma Dazheng's
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
quiescence-in short, not to resolve Uyghurs' grievances but to deprive them of the resources and opportunities to articulate them publicly. In fact, instead of addressing Uyghurs' dissatisfactions, many of the policy instruments used to quell protests actually exacerbated them.