This paper applies ideas on sovereignty as a contested and variable set of practices in
international politics to the People's Republic of China's declaration of 'core interests' in …

Beginning with a summary of the contemporary human rights crisis in Xinjiang, Northwest
China, where upwards of one million mostly Muslim Turkic and other minority peoples are …

The Chinese road of development must necessarily be peaceful. While such pacifism is
closely related to Chinese cultural traditions, its direction is essentially settled by China's …

Background The “one country, two systems” principle serves as the solution to prevent a
clash between two political units that have significant differences. Hong Kong owes its …

How will China influence world politics in the twenty-first century? Many people answer this
question by looking to Chinese history, and particularly to traditional models of Chinese …

This essay examines the way Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in
Northwest China have found themselves caught in webs of surveillance and biometric …

This chapter concerns socialist modernisation and a xiaokang (moderately well-off) society.
Since Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, the 'four modernisations' have focused on agriculture …

Under the leadership of this “so excellent a lord in all things” and those of his inheritors, the
Great Mongol Empire was governed by a written law called the “Ih Zasag,” which is …

The following paper examines China's religious and nationality policies aimed at
establishing and maintaining political and social control over the Uyghur population of …

Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous city under the sovereignty of the People's Republic of
China (China), has enjoyed a high degree of autonomy and has separated its political …