1st Edition
Economic Development in China's Northwest Entrepreneurship and identity along China’s multi-ethnic borderlands
By Joshua Bird
Copyright 2018
184 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
184 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
184 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Under the ethnic affairs management regime established by the People’s Republic of China, every Chinese citizen is classified within one of 56 state-recognised ‘nationalities’. Government policy assumes that these nationalities differ from one another primarily in their levels of economic development, and asserts that ethnic divisions and identities fade with the gradual achievement of economic... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Ethnicity and Nationality
3. Economic Development and Identity in China
4. Xining City: Xining's Tibetan Entrepreneurs
5. Hezheng County: China’s Multi-Ethnic Economy at the Local Level
6. Dongxiang County: The People of the East Village
7. Linxia City: Doing Business in China’s ‘Little Mecca’
8. Lanzhou City: An Islamic Economy in a Han City
9. Conclusion
Biography
Joshua Bird works across the Asia-Pacific region in the field of international development. He is currently International Program Coordinator for ChildFund Australia.
