Ethnic China: Identity, Assimilation, and Resistance

Li, Xiaobing (Editor)/ Shan, Patrick F. (Editor)/ Cao, Lu (Contributor)/ Fang, Qiang (Contributor)/ Hong, Zhaohui (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 149850728X / ISBN 13: 9781498507288

Published by Lexington Books, 2015

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318 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ethnic China: Identity, Assimilation, and Resistance
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 149850728X
• ISBN 13: 9781498507288
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

There are some serious concerns and critical questions about the on-going minority protesting in China, such as Tibetan monks’ self-immolations, Muslims’ suicide bombings, and Uyghur large-scale demonstrations. Why are minorities such as the Uyghur dissatisfied, when China is rising as a world power? What kind of struggle must they go through to maintain their identity, heritage, and rights? How does the government deal with this ethnic dissatisfaction and minority riots? And what is ethnic China’s future in the 21st century? Ethnic China examines these issues from the perspective of Chinese-American scholars from fields such as economics, political science, criminal justice, law, anthropology, sociology, and education. The contributors introduce and explore the theory and practice of policy patterns, political systems, and social institutions by identifying key issues in Chinese government, society, and ethnic community contained within the larger framework of the international sphere.Their endeavors move beyond the existing scholarship and seek to spark new debates and proposed solutions while reflecting on established schools of history, religion, linguistics, and gender studies.

About the Authors

Xiaobing Li is Professor of History and Geography and the Don Betz Endowed Chair in International Studies at the University of Central Oklahoma. He has written and edited two other volumes for Bloomsbury, The History of Taiwan (2019) and China at War: An Encyclopedia (2012).

Xiaoyuan Liu is professor of history at Iowa State University, US and has a Zijiang Professorship at East China Normal University. He has worked on the issue of modern China's territories and ethnic frontiers for more than a decade. He is the author of Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony, 1911 - 1950 (Stanford UP, 2006), and Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism (Stanford UP, 2004). He is a leading scholar in the field of East Asian international history and a pioneer historian who provides fresh paradigms and opens new grounds.