LEADER 04880nam 22006255 450 001 9910624318403321 005 20251009103345.0 010 $a9789811937767 010 $a9811937761 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-19-3776-7 035 $a(CKB)25332786600041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7140441 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7140441 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-19-3776-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925332786600041 100 $a20221114d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPeople, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China $eTerritories of Identity /$fby David O?Brien, Melissa Shani Brown 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 353 pages) $cillustrations 311 08$aPrint version: O'Brien, David People, place, race, and nation in Xinjiang, China Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan US,c2022 9789811937750 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Being and Becoming Chinese: Nation, Ethnicity, Race in Xinjiang -- Chapter 3. Killing the Weeds: The Re-education Camps, Carcinogenic Culture, and Techniques of Modernization -- Chapter 4. Everyday Others: ethnic divides in Xinjiang -- Chapter 5. The Ethnicity of Time: Policing Identity through Practices -- Chapter 6. Ethnic Difference as a Mortal Threat: the Ürümchi Riots -- Chapter 7. The Past as Envisioned for the Future: Sinicizing Historicized identities in Xinjiang -- Chapter 8. Eating the Other: Assimilation and Commodification of Ethnic Difference -- Chapter 9. Becoming-Modern: Sinicization, Existential Threats, and Secular Time -- Chapter 10. Conclusion: Futures of the New Frontier. 330 $aIn 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 Ürümchi 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. David O?Brien is a Research Associate with the Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. His research focusses on ethnic identity in contemporary China and the interplay between ethnicity and politics. Melissa Shani Brown is affiliated with the Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. Her research interests include the conceptual uses of ?silence? in critical theory and cultural texts, and intersectionality. . 606 $aRace 606 $aEthnology 606 $aChina$xHistory 606 $aReligion and politics 606 $aRace and Ethnicity Studies 606 $aEthnography 606 $aHistory of China 606 $aPolitics and Religion 615 0$aRace. 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aChina$xHistory. 615 0$aReligion and politics. 615 14$aRace and Ethnicity Studies. 615 24$aEthnography. 615 24$aHistory of China. 615 24$aPolitics and Religion. 676 $a305.8 700 $aO'Brien$b David$0375922 702 $aBrown$b Melissa Shani 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910624318403321 996 $aPeople, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China$92968410 997 $aUNINA