Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China's West 9780231540445

Table of contents :
Table of Contents
Introduction: Understanding the Current Wave of Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang
1. Unrest in Tibet and the Limits of Regional Autonomy
2. Propaganda in the Public Square: Communicating State Directives on Religion and Ethnicity to Uyghurs and Tibetans in Western China
3. Discussing Rights and Human Rights in Tibet
4. The Chinese Education System as a Source of Conflict in Tibetan Areas
5. Lucrative Chaos: Interethnic Conflict as a Function of the Economic “Normalization” of Southern Xinjiang
6. Environmental Issues and Conflict in Tibet
7. Fringe Existence: Uyghur Entrepreneurs and Ethnic Relations in Urban Xinjiang
8. Prosperity, Identity, Intra-Tibetan Violence, and Harmony in Southeast Tibet: The Case of Gyalthang
9. Interethnic Conflict in the PRC: Xinjiang and Tibet as Exceptions?
Contributors
Index

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Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang

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