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Chinese Minorities at home and abroad book cover

1st Edition

Chinese Minorities at home and abroad

Edited By Michael Dillon Copyright 2017
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge
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The classification of ethnic identities ( minzu ) remains controversial in China. Categories established in the 1950s are still used by the state to administer minority areas, despite the existence of a complicated web of subjective identities which potentially undermines efforts to use these categories effectively. This book offers a new, and sometimes unusual, perspective on ethnic relations... Read more

Majorities and minorities in China: an introduction Michael Dillon

1. Representation of ethnic minorities in socialist China Ke Fan

2. More Islamic, no less Chinese: explorations into overseas Chinese Muslim identities in Malaysia Chow Bing Ngeow and Hailong Ma

3. Kazakh perspective on China, the Chinese, and Chinese migration Aziz Burkhanov and Yu-Wen Chen

4. The discourse of racialization of labour and Chinese enterprises in Africa Barry Sautman and Yan Hairong

5. Socioeconomic attainment, cultural tastes, and ethnic identity: class subjectivities among Uyghurs in Ürümchi Xiaowei Zang

6. Blurring boundaries and negotiating subjectivities – the Uyghurized Han of southern Xinjiang, China Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi

Biography

Michael Dillon is an independent China scholar specialising in the history, politics and society of China. He was the founding Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Durham, UK; is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society; and is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House).

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