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People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China
Territories of Identity
By: David O'Brien, Melissa Shani Brown
Hardcover | 15 November 2022
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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 CCP's use of forced internment in 're-education' 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 one's 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 're-education' campaign, and the devastating Ãœrumchi 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 ('Sinicisation') is being justified through the rhetoric of 'modernisation', 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.
Industry Reviews
"David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown's ethnography People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity examines the way the identities of Uyghurs and Han are shaped by everyday forms of racialization in northwest China. ... The book is the product of a long-term ethnographic research project conducted between 2009 and 2019 in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China. ... This book is a significant contribution to the study of contemporary racialization." (Darren Byler, The China Quarterly, February 15, 2024)
ISBN: 9789811937750
ISBN-10: 9811937753
Published: 15th November 2022
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 372
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Springer Nature B.V.
Country of Publication: SG
Dimensions (cm): 21.01 x 14.81 x 2.24
Weight (kg): 0.59
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