J Leibold
Biographic Data
| ID | 128637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Leibold |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Leibold |
| SIGNATURE | LEIBOLD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3097-7571 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 292 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Infrastructure nationalism and sovereignty by settlement in Tibet: The case of xiaokang border villages
This article critically examines China’s Xiaokang Border Village Programme (2017–20) in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), situating it within Xi Jinping’s broader strategy of ‘governing the borders to govern the country’. Ostensibly framed as a poverty alleviation and rural revitalization initiative, the programme mobilized billions in state funding to construct or rebuild more than 600 model villages in Tibet’s border counties. Drawing on a ran…
Rectifying Names, Erasing Mongols: The Unmaking of Mongolian Education in China
Forged souls, broken lives: Xi Jinping’s ‘soul-casting’ project in Xinjiang and beyond
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The Tibet-Aid Project and Settler Colonialism in China’s Borderlands
This essay examines the expansion of the Tibet-Aid Project in Chinese President Xi Jinping's 'New Era' of Han-centric nationalism and explores how the project facilitates Han settler colonialism in the Tibetan Autonomous Region. It argues that the Chinese Communist Party views the Tibetan Plateau as a sort of 'final frontier', where the heroic 'Han man's burden' of bringing civilisation and progress into this far corner of the People's Republic o…
Han-Centrism and Multiethnic Nation-Building in China and Taiwan: A Comparative Study since 1911
Although the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC, also known as Taiwan) and their ruling parties have altered over time, there are quite a few similarities between their models of nation-building, more than is commonly acknowledged. The guofu (father) of the modern Chinese state, Sun Yat-sen, one of the few political leaders who is still honored on both sides of the Taiwan Straits, claimed all the peoples and territori…
Vanishing Quotas: Tibetan Political Disenfranchisement in Xi Jinping’s New Era of Han-Centrism
A Chinese Rebel Beyond the Great Wall: The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia
Learning to be Chinese: Colonial-style boarding schools on the Tibetan plateau
Like other colonial state structures, the education system in China aims to manufacture regime loyalty and cultural conformity among its 125 million minority nationalities. The Party-state's lessons in 'being Chinese' begin by nullifying traditional languages, cultures and lifestyles, which are deemed primitive and uncouth, and then remould minority students in the image of the Han majority and its perceived superiority. In this article we examin…
State Racism and Surveillance in Xinjiang (People's Republic of China)
Racism, as a truly global phenomenon, requires a comparative approach that can account for its diverse forms and their commonalities. Despite the prevalence and relevance of racism throughout Asia, much scholarship on the topic remains parochially focussed on the north Atlantic world. This article aims to help address this issue in two ways. First, it discusses surveillance and racialisation practices in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in C…
China’s Second-generation Ethnic Policies Are Already Here: What China’s History of Paper Genocide Can Tell Us about the Future of Its ‘Minority Nationalities
In early June this year, officials in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) released a new policy that would drastically undermine the use of the Mongolian language in schools, effectively replacing it as a language of instruction with Chinese (Baioud 2020).In response to this unwelcome imposition, petitions began circulating, calling for the repeal of the policy and eventually leading to street demonstrations, school boycotts, and other pr…
Urbanizing Tibet: Differential inclusion and colonial governance in the People’s Republic of China
This article examines the urbanization of Tibet. We argue that urbanization is a new technique of colonial governance for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and is characterized by what Yen Le Espiritu calls ‘differential inclusion’: a form of forcible incorporation resulting in particular spaces and populations being ‘deemed integral to the nation ... only or precisely because of their designated subordina…
China Dreams
The year 2019 marked a number of significant anniversaries for the People's Republic of China (PRC), each representing different 'Chinese dreams'. There was the centennial of the May Fourth Movement - a dream of patriotism and cultural renewal. The PRC celebrated its seventieth anniversary - a dream of revolution and national strength. It was also thirty years since the
Securitizing Xinjiang: Police Recruitment, Informal Policing and Ethnic Minority Co-optation
Following a series of high-profile attacks in Beijing, Kunming and Urumqi by Uyghur militants, the Chinese party-state declared a “war on terror” in 2014. Since then, China's Xinjiang region has witnessed an unprecedented build-up of what we describe as a multi-tiered police force, turning it into one of the most heavily policed regions in the world. This article investigates the securitization of Xinjiang through an analysis of official police r…
Ethnic Governance under Xi Jinping: The Centrality of the United Front Work Department & Its Implications
The motto ‘the Party rules everything’ is now a defining characteristic of governance in Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era’. This article analyzes the changing Party-state relationship by interrogating the competition between the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department and the State Council’s Ethnic Affairs Commission from the early 2000s, focusing particularly on the changes since Xi became leader in 2012. Through discourse analysis, the arti…
Cultural and Political Disciplining inside China’s Dislocated Minority Schooling System
More than 200,000 ethnic minority students have passed through China’s dislocated minority schooling system since 1985. This program deracinates adolescent Tibetan, Uyghur and other chiefly minority students from their families and local communities and educates them in Putonghua in boarding schools located in Han ethnic majority cities in central and coastal China. Drawing on detailed rules and regulations from more than a dozen of these schools…
Surveillance in China’s Xinjiang Region: Ethnic Sorting, Coercion, and Inducement
Over the last decade, the Chinese Communist Party has built an unprecedented surveillant assemblage in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) with the region’s Uyghur Muslim minority as the chief target of augmented Party-state controls. This article interrogates the mechanics, logic and implications of Xinjiang’s surveillance society. It demonstrates how Party-state monitoring comes not only in the form of physical monitoring and forced ki…
Interior Ethnic Minority Boarding Schools: China’s Bold and Unpredictable Educational Experiment
By way of introduction, this lead essay provides an overview of China’s ethnic minority boarding school system, exploring its background, aims and history, while introducing the mechanics and curricula employed in these special schools. The article seeks to interrogate the goals and outcomes of the system, arguing that the pedagogic results do not fully accord with the expectations of minority graduates or Han Party-state officials. The result is…
Preferential policies for ethnic minorities in China
In chapter 8, James Leibold argues that China has arguably the world's most extensive regime of minority affirmative action policies, far more extensive than the more widely discussed and debated policies that exist in the United States of America and other liberal democracies. Generally known as "preferential policies" (youhui zhengce 优惠政策) in Chinese, these policies provide China's nearly 120 million ethnic minorities with tangible material and…
Islamic Veiling in Xinjiang: The Political and Societal Struggle to Define Uyghur Female Adornment
The Islamic veil is arguably the most politicized piece of fabric in the world, eliciting heated debate over its significance and complex meanings. The over 10 million Muslim women in China have their own histories and cultures of veiling. This article explores the ongoing struggle between the Chinese Communist Party and Xinjiang’s Uyghur Muslim minority over the right to define what is “appropriate” and “normal” female adornment. New styles of v…
Nations and Nationalism roundtable discussion on Chinese nationalism and national identity
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Han cybernationalism and state territorialization in the People's Republic of China
Han majority nationalism poses a significant yet under-theorized challenge to state sovereignty and territorial integrity in China, especially in the era of the Internet. By shifting our focus from minority secessionist movements on the ground in Xinjiang and Tibet to a group of Han nationalists active in cyberspace, this article probes the friction between three distinct yet interrelated ideologies of spatiality in contemporary China: the proces…
Performing ethnocultural identity on the Sinophone Internet: Testing the Limits Ofminzu
James Leibolda*a Department of Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, AustraliaJames Leibold is currently a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Asian Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and a Ph.D. graduate of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA. He is the author, most recently, of Ethnic Policy in China: Is Reform Inevitable? (Honolulu: East-West Center, 2013) and co-editor (with C…
Xinhai remembered: From Han racial revolution to great revival of the Chinese nation
This article turns three different analytical mirrors onto the Xinhai Revolution – 1911, 1961, 2011 – in order to interrogate its evolving significance in the minds of China's Han ethnic and ruling elite. In particular, it seeks to demonstrates the discursive appropriation of the Qing nomadic frontier in the ways in which the 1911 Revolution is remembered and commemorated, exploring both the temporal and spatial dimensions of this appropriation, …
Sociology of ethnicity
Sociology of ethnicity , by the Association of Sociology of Ethnicity, Sociology Society of China, Institute of Sociology and Anthropology, Peking University, Beijing, 1995–2012 The Sinophone resea
Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority
Addressing the problem of the ‘Han’ ethnos from a variety of relevant perspectives—historical, geographical, racial, political, literary, anthropological, and linguistic—Critical Han Studies offers a responsible, informative deconstruction of this monumental yet murky category. It is certain to have an enormous impact on the entire field of China studies.” Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania“This deeply historical, multidisciplinary volume…
More Than a Category: Han Supremacism on the Chinese Internet
Using the October 2008 slapping incident of historian Yan Chongnian 阎崇年 as a case study, this article attempts to contextualize and critically examine the articulation of Han supremacism on the Chinese internet. It demonstrates how an informal group of non-elite, urban youth are mobilizing the ancient Han ethnonym to challenge the Chinese Communist Party's official policy of multiculturalism, while seeking to promote pride and self-identification…
Surveillance in China’s Xinjiang Region: Ethnic Sorting, Coercion, and Inducement
Over the last decade, the Chinese Communist Party has built an unprecedented surveillant assemblage in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) with the region’s Uyghur Muslim minority as the chief target of augmented Party-state controls. This article interrogates the mechanics, logic and implications of Xinjiang’s surveillance society. It demonstrates how Party-state monitoring comes not only in the form of physical monitoring and forced ki…
Competing Narratives of Racial Unity in Republican China: From the Yellow Emperor to Peking Man
Following Prasenjit Duara's strategy for “de-constructing China,” this article traces the development of several competing narratives of national unity and origin during the formative Republican era (1911-49) of Chinese history. Faced with the difficult task of incorporating the heterogeneous peoples of the Qing empire into the new Chinese nation-state, Han Chinese intellectuals looked backward into their own history for scientific proof of this …
Blogging Alone: China, the Internet, and the Democratic Illusion
Drawing on recent survey data, digital ethnography and comparative analysis, this article presents a critical re-appraisal of the interactive blogosphere in China and its effects on Chinese social and political life. Focused on the discursive and behaviorist trends of Chinese netizens rather than the ubiquitous information control/resistance paradigm, it argues that the Sinophone blogosphere is producing the same shallow infotainment, pernicious …
Securitizing Xinjiang: Police Recruitment, Informal Policing and Ethnic Minority Co-optation
Following a series of high-profile attacks in Beijing, Kunming and Urumqi by Uyghur militants, the Chinese party-state declared a “war on terror” in 2014. Since then, China's Xinjiang region has witnessed an unprecedented build-up of what we describe as a multi-tiered police force, turning it into one of the most heavily policed regions in the world. This article investigates the securitization of Xinjiang through an analysis of official police r…
Islamic Veiling in Xinjiang: The Political and Societal Struggle to Define Uyghur Female Adornment
The Islamic veil is arguably the most politicized piece of fabric in the world, eliciting heated debate over its significance and complex meanings. The over 10 million Muslim women in China have their own histories and cultures of veiling. This article explores the ongoing struggle between the Chinese Communist Party and Xinjiang’s Uyghur Muslim minority over the right to define what is “appropriate” and “normal” female adornment. New styles of v…
Learning to be Chinese: Colonial-style boarding schools on the Tibetan plateau
Like other colonial state structures, the education system in China aims to manufacture regime loyalty and cultural conformity among its 125 million minority nationalities. The Party-state's lessons in 'being Chinese' begin by nullifying traditional languages, cultures and lifestyles, which are deemed primitive and uncouth, and then remould minority students in the image of the Han majority and its perceived superiority. In this article we examin…
Han cybernationalism and state territorialization in the People's Republic of China
Han majority nationalism poses a significant yet under-theorized challenge to state sovereignty and territorial integrity in China, especially in the era of the Internet. By shifting our focus from minority secessionist movements on the ground in Xinjiang and Tibet to a group of Han nationalists active in cyberspace, this article probes the friction between three distinct yet interrelated ideologies of spatiality in contemporary China: the proces…
Interior Ethnic Minority Boarding Schools: China’s Bold and Unpredictable Educational Experiment
By way of introduction, this lead essay provides an overview of China’s ethnic minority boarding school system, exploring its background, aims and history, while introducing the mechanics and curricula employed in these special schools. The article seeks to interrogate the goals and outcomes of the system, arguing that the pedagogic results do not fully accord with the expectations of minority graduates or Han Party-state officials. The result is…
The Beijing Olympics and China's Conflicted National Form
The unprecedented media coverage of the Beijing Olympics?China's global "coming out party"?warrants consideration of who and what were on display. In staging the Games, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) promised to "organize diversified cultural and educational programs to cater to the needs of the people", while encouraging "the widest participation of the people in the preparation of the Games" in order to "increase…
Urbanizing Tibet: Differential inclusion and colonial governance in the People’s Republic of China
This article examines the urbanization of Tibet. We argue that urbanization is a new technique of colonial governance for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and is characterized by what Yen Le Espiritu calls ‘differential inclusion’: a form of forcible incorporation resulting in particular spaces and populations being ‘deemed integral to the nation ... only or precisely because of their designated subordina…
Cultural and Political Disciplining inside China’s Dislocated Minority Schooling System
More than 200,000 ethnic minority students have passed through China’s dislocated minority schooling system since 1985. This program deracinates adolescent Tibetan, Uyghur and other chiefly minority students from their families and local communities and educates them in Putonghua in boarding schools located in Han ethnic majority cities in central and coastal China. Drawing on detailed rules and regulations from more than a dozen of these schools…
Nations and Nationalism roundtable discussion on Chinese nationalism and national identity
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Ethnic Governance under Xi Jinping: The Centrality of the United Front Work Department & Its Implications
The motto ‘the Party rules everything’ is now a defining characteristic of governance in Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era’. This article analyzes the changing Party-state relationship by interrogating the competition between the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department and the State Council’s Ethnic Affairs Commission from the early 2000s, focusing particularly on the changes since Xi became leader in 2012. Through discourse analysis, the arti…
Performing ethnocultural identity on the Sinophone Internet: Testing the Limits Ofminzu
James Leibolda*a Department of Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, AustraliaJames Leibold is currently a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Asian Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and a Ph.D. graduate of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA. He is the author, most recently, of Ethnic Policy in China: Is Reform Inevitable? (Honolulu: East-West Center, 2013) and co-editor (with C…
State Racism and Surveillance in Xinjiang (People's Republic of China)
Racism, as a truly global phenomenon, requires a comparative approach that can account for its diverse forms and their commonalities. Despite the prevalence and relevance of racism throughout Asia, much scholarship on the topic remains parochially focussed on the north Atlantic world. This article aims to help address this issue in two ways. First, it discusses surveillance and racialisation practices in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in C…
Xinhai remembered: From Han racial revolution to great revival of the Chinese nation
This article turns three different analytical mirrors onto the Xinhai Revolution – 1911, 1961, 2011 – in order to interrogate its evolving significance in the minds of China's Han ethnic and ruling elite. In particular, it seeks to demonstrates the discursive appropriation of the Qing nomadic frontier in the ways in which the 1911 Revolution is remembered and commemorated, exploring both the temporal and spatial dimensions of this appropriation, …
Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority
Addressing the problem of the ‘Han’ ethnos from a variety of relevant perspectives—historical, geographical, racial, political, literary, anthropological, and linguistic—Critical Han Studies offers a responsible, informative deconstruction of this monumental yet murky category. It is certain to have an enormous impact on the entire field of China studies.” Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania“This deeply historical, multidisciplinary volume…
Un-Mapping Republican China's Tibetan Frontier: Politics, Warlordism and Ethnicity along the Kham/Xikang Borderland
(2005). Un-Mapping Republican China's Tibetan Frontier: Politics, Warlordism and Ethnicity along the Kham/Xikang Borderland. The Chinese Historical Review: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 167-201
Un-Mapping Republican China's Tibetan Frontier: Politics, Warlordism and Ethnicity along the Kham/Xikang Borderland
(2005). Un-Mapping Republican China's Tibetan Frontier: Politics, Warlordism and Ethnicity along the Kham/Xikang Borderland. The Chinese Historical Review: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 167-201
China in War and Revolution 1895-1949 . Peter Zarrow
Competing Narratives of Racial Unity in Republican China: From the Yellow Emperor to Peking Man
Following Prasenjit Duara's strategy for “de-constructing China,” this article traces the development of several competing narratives of national unity and origin during the formative Republican era (1911-49) of Chinese history. Faced with the difficult task of incorporating the heterogeneous peoples of the Qing empire into the new Chinese nation-state, Han Chinese intellectuals looked backward into their own history for scientific proof of this …
Reconfiguring Chinese Nationalism: How the Qing Frontier and its Indigenes Became Chinese
The first full length treatment of ethnic and national identity in early Twentieth-century China, Leibold traces the political and cultural strategies employed by Han Chinese elites in the process of
Communist Multiculturalism: Ethnic Revival in Southwest China . Susan K. McCarthy
The Beijing Olympics and China's Conflicted National Form
The unprecedented media coverage of the Beijing Olympics?China's global "coming out party"?warrants consideration of who and what were on display. In staging the Games, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) promised to "organize diversified cultural and educational programs to cater to the needs of the people", while encouraging "the widest participation of the people in the preparation of the Games" in order to "increase…
More Than a Category: Han Supremacism on the Chinese Internet
Using the October 2008 slapping incident of historian Yan Chongnian 阎崇年 as a case study, this article attempts to contextualize and critically examine the articulation of Han supremacism on the Chinese internet. It demonstrates how an informal group of non-elite, urban youth are mobilizing the ancient Han ethnonym to challenge the Chinese Communist Party's official policy of multiculturalism, while seeking to promote pride and self-identification…
Blogging Alone: China, the Internet, and the Democratic Illusion
Drawing on recent survey data, digital ethnography and comparative analysis, this article presents a critical re-appraisal of the interactive blogosphere in China and its effects on Chinese social and political life. Focused on the discursive and behaviorist trends of Chinese netizens rather than the ubiquitous information control/resistance paradigm, it argues that the Sinophone blogosphere is producing the same shallow infotainment, pernicious …
Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority
Addressing the problem of the ‘Han’ ethnos from a variety of relevant perspectives—historical, geographical, racial, political, literary, anthropological, and linguistic—Critical Han Studies offers a responsible, informative deconstruction of this monumental yet murky category. It is certain to have an enormous impact on the entire field of China studies.” Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania“This deeply historical, multidisciplinary volume…
Michael Keevak. Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking
Journal Article Michael Keevak. Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking. Get access Michael Keevak. Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking.Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2011. Pp. viii, 219. $29.95. James Leibold James Leibold La Trobe University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 5, December 2012, Page…
Sociology of ethnicity
Sociology of ethnicity , by the Association of Sociology of Ethnicity, Sociology Society of China, Institute of Sociology and Anthropology, Peking University, Beijing, 1995–2012 The Sinophone resea
Xinhai remembered: From Han racial revolution to great revival of the Chinese nation
This article turns three different analytical mirrors onto the Xinhai Revolution – 1911, 1961, 2011 – in order to interrogate its evolving significance in the minds of China's Han ethnic and ruling elite. In particular, it seeks to demonstrates the discursive appropriation of the Qing nomadic frontier in the ways in which the 1911 Revolution is remembered and commemorated, exploring both the temporal and spatial dimensions of this appropriation, …
Performing ethnocultural identity on the Sinophone Internet: Testing the Limits Ofminzu
James Leibolda*a Department of Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, AustraliaJames Leibold is currently a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Asian Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and a Ph.D. graduate of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA. He is the author, most recently, of Ethnic Policy in China: Is Reform Inevitable? (Honolulu: East-West Center, 2013) and co-editor (with C…
Preferential policies for ethnic minorities in China
In chapter 8, James Leibold argues that China has arguably the world's most extensive regime of minority affirmative action policies, far more extensive than the more widely discussed and debated policies that exist in the United States of America and other liberal democracies. Generally known as "preferential policies" (youhui zhengce 优惠政策) in Chinese, these policies provide China's nearly 120 million ethnic minorities with tangible material and…
Islamic Veiling in Xinjiang: The Political and Societal Struggle to Define Uyghur Female Adornment
The Islamic veil is arguably the most politicized piece of fabric in the world, eliciting heated debate over its significance and complex meanings. The over 10 million Muslim women in China have their own histories and cultures of veiling. This article explores the ongoing struggle between the Chinese Communist Party and Xinjiang’s Uyghur Muslim minority over the right to define what is “appropriate” and “normal” female adornment. New styles of v…
Nations and Nationalism roundtable discussion on Chinese nationalism and national identity
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Han cybernationalism and state territorialization in the People's Republic of China
Han majority nationalism poses a significant yet under-theorized challenge to state sovereignty and territorial integrity in China, especially in the era of the Internet. By shifting our focus from minority secessionist movements on the ground in Xinjiang and Tibet to a group of Han nationalists active in cyberspace, this article probes the friction between three distinct yet interrelated ideologies of spatiality in contemporary China: the proces…
Interior Ethnic Minority Boarding Schools: China’s Bold and Unpredictable Educational Experiment
By way of introduction, this lead essay provides an overview of China’s ethnic minority boarding school system, exploring its background, aims and history, while introducing the mechanics and curricula employed in these special schools. The article seeks to interrogate the goals and outcomes of the system, arguing that the pedagogic results do not fully accord with the expectations of minority graduates or Han Party-state officials. The result is…
Securitizing Xinjiang: Police Recruitment, Informal Policing and Ethnic Minority Co-optation
Following a series of high-profile attacks in Beijing, Kunming and Urumqi by Uyghur militants, the Chinese party-state declared a “war on terror” in 2014. Since then, China's Xinjiang region has witnessed an unprecedented build-up of what we describe as a multi-tiered police force, turning it into one of the most heavily policed regions in the world. This article investigates the securitization of Xinjiang through an analysis of official police r…
Ethnic Governance under Xi Jinping: The Centrality of the United Front Work Department & Its Implications
The motto ‘the Party rules everything’ is now a defining characteristic of governance in Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era’. This article analyzes the changing Party-state relationship by interrogating the competition between the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department and the State Council’s Ethnic Affairs Commission from the early 2000s, focusing particularly on the changes since Xi became leader in 2012. Through discourse analysis, the arti…
Cultural and Political Disciplining inside China’s Dislocated Minority Schooling System
More than 200,000 ethnic minority students have passed through China’s dislocated minority schooling system since 1985. This program deracinates adolescent Tibetan, Uyghur and other chiefly minority students from their families and local communities and educates them in Putonghua in boarding schools located in Han ethnic majority cities in central and coastal China. Drawing on detailed rules and regulations from more than a dozen of these schools…
Surveillance in China’s Xinjiang Region: Ethnic Sorting, Coercion, and Inducement
Over the last decade, the Chinese Communist Party has built an unprecedented surveillant assemblage in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) with the region’s Uyghur Muslim minority as the chief target of augmented Party-state controls. This article interrogates the mechanics, logic and implications of Xinjiang’s surveillance society. It demonstrates how Party-state monitoring comes not only in the form of physical monitoring and forced ki…
China’s Second-generation Ethnic Policies Are Already Here: What China’s History of Paper Genocide Can Tell Us about the Future of Its ‘Minority Nationalities
In early June this year, officials in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) released a new policy that would drastically undermine the use of the Mongolian language in schools, effectively replacing it as a language of instruction with Chinese (Baioud 2020).In response to this unwelcome imposition, petitions began circulating, calling for the repeal of the policy and eventually leading to street demonstrations, school boycotts, and other pr…
Urbanizing Tibet: Differential inclusion and colonial governance in the People’s Republic of China
This article examines the urbanization of Tibet. We argue that urbanization is a new technique of colonial governance for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and is characterized by what Yen Le Espiritu calls ‘differential inclusion’: a form of forcible incorporation resulting in particular spaces and populations being ‘deemed integral to the nation ... only or precisely because of their designated subordina…
China Dreams
The year 2019 marked a number of significant anniversaries for the People's Republic of China (PRC), each representing different 'Chinese dreams'. There was the centennial of the May Fourth Movement - a dream of patriotism and cultural renewal. The PRC celebrated its seventieth anniversary - a dream of revolution and national strength. It was also thirty years since the
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