34 research outputs found
China's Re-Education Camps in Xinjiang: Curing the Disease or Killing the Patient?
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Positioning "Minzu" within Sun Yat-Sen's discourse of Minzuzhuyi
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The minzu net: China's fragmented national form (in Nations and Nationalism roundtable discussion on Chinese nationalism and national identity)
No full textHan majority nationalism poses a significant yet under-theorized challenge to state sovereignty and territorial integrity in China, especially in the era of the Internet. By shifting our focus from minority secessionist movements on the ground in Xinjiang and Tibet to a group of Han nationalists active in cyberspace, this article probes the friction between three distinct yet interrelated ideologies of spatiality in contemporary China: the processes and practices of state territorialization; counter-narratives and geographies of Han cybernationalism; and the transnational flows of the Sinophone Internet. It argues that the Internet empowers yet ultimately blunts the threat of Han nationalism, rendering it largely impotent when faced with the hegemony of state territorialization.
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Carlson, A. R., Costa, A., Duara, P., Leibold, J., Carrico, K., Gries, P. H., Eto, N., Zhao, S., and Weiss, J. C. (2016) Nations and Nationalism roundtable discussion on Chinese nationalism and national identity. Nations and Nationalism, 22: 415– 446. doi: 10.1111/nana.12232, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12232. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.
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Surveillance in China’s Xinjiang region: ethnic sorting, coercion, and inducement
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Performing ethnocultural identity on the Sinophone Internet: testing the limits of minzu
No full textThis article explores what happens to the Chinese Party-state’s notion of minzu (nationality, ethnicity or ethno-national identity) in the vastness of cyberspace. The idea that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) comprises 56 distinct yet united minzu groups has encapsulated and circumscribed the performance of ethnocultural diversity in mainland China over the last 60 plus years. In this article, I seek to demonstrate how the Internet helps to loosen the Party-state’s grip on ‘Chineseness’ and its related categories of identity, opening up new spaces for the articulation of a wide range of ethnocultural subject positions that both self-define, mediate and, at times, even transcended minzu-ness. At the same time, however, the fractured and transitory nature of these online congregations renders them largely inconsequential when faced with a powerful and authoritarian Party-state and its robust regime of minzu classification and minzu-based policies inside the PRC
Surveillance in China’s Xinjiang region: ethnic sorting, coercion, and inducement
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Interior Ethnic Minority Boarding Schools: China’s Bold and Unpredictable Educational Experiment
No full textBy way of introduction, this lead essay provides an overview of China’s ethnic minority boarding school system, exploring its background, aims and history, while introducing the mechanics and curricula employed in these special schools. The article seeks to interrogate the goals and outcomes of the system, arguing that the pedagogic results do not fully accord with the expectations of minority graduates or Han Party-state officials. The result is a highly significant educational experiment whose long-term results are far from predictable. This introduction sets the stage for the detailed empirical and ethnographic studies that comprise this special issue
