Ethnic conflict and protest in Tibet and Xinjiang
Subtitle: unrest in China's West
By: edited by Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Colombia University; Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780231169981
Subjects: Ethnic conflict; Ethnic relations; Borderlands
Description: "A comprehensive study of ethnic unrest in China's borderlands"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Understanding the current wave of conflict and protest in Tibet and Xinjiang / Ben Hillman; title: Unrest in Tibet and the limits of regional autonomy / Ben Hillman; title: Propaganda in the public square : communicating state directives on religion and ethnicity to Uyghurs and Tibetans in western China / Antonio Terrone; title: Discussing rights and human rights in Tibet / Françoise Robin; title: The Chinese education system as a source of conflict in Tibetan areas / Clémence Henry; title: Lucrative chaos : inter-ethnic conflict as a function of the economic "normalization" of southern Xinjiang / Thomas Cliff; title: Environmental issues and conflict in Tibet / Yonten Nyima and Emily T. Yeh; title: Fringe existence : Uyghur entrepreneurs and ethnic relations in urban Xinjiang / Tyler Harlan; title: Prosperity, identity, intra-Tibetan violence, and harmony in southeast Tibet : the case of Gyalthang / Eric Mortensen; title: Interethnic conflict in the PRC : Xinjiang and Tibet as exceptions? / James Leibold.