For more than half a century many Uyghurs, members of a Muslim minority in northwestern
China, have sought to achieve greater autonomy or outright independence. Yet the Chinese …

Against the background of the Ürümchi riots (July 2009), this book provides a longitudinal
study of contemporary Uyghur identities and Uyghur-Han relations. Previous studies …

For decades, China's Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing
Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, much scholarly attention has been paid to state …

Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such
as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two …

Promoting democracy has long been a priority of Western foreign policy. In practice,
however, international attempts to expand representative forms of government have been …

This paper critically examines the Chinese framing of the “terrorist” violence in Xinjiang.
Drawing on the Copenhagen school of securitization theory, it examines how the historical …

In recent years the Chinese Communist Party has moved to scale up, modernize, and
commercialize agriculture by placing it under the direction of large commercial enterprises …

Names: McNamee, Lachlan, 1991–author. Title: Settling for less: why states colonize and
why they stop/Lachlan McNamee. Description: Princeton: Princeton University Press,[2023] …

Most analyses of central government policy in Xinjiang focus on “the Uyghur problem”. This
article demonstrates the coexistence of a significant “Han problem” in Xinjiang, and thereby …

This study traces the evolution of systemic state-sponsored coercive labor in the cotton
harvest in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The recent …