Oil and Water

Being Han in Xinjiang

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ID8076144
AuthorsTom Cliff (0000-0002-1906-2821, corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages335
Publication date2016-06-10
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueOil and Water (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7208/chicago/9780226360270.001.0001
OpenAlexW2500342818
Open LibraryOL51667642M
ISBN9780226360270
LanguageEN
Citations received39

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 actions and the Uyghur’s efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. This has left the other half of the puzzle—the motivations and ambitions of Han settlers themselves—sorely understudied. \n \nWith Oil and Water, anthropologist Tom Cliff offers the first ethnographic study of Han in Xinjiang, using in-depth vignettes, oral histories, and more than fifty original photographs to explore how and why they became the people they are now. By shifting focus to the lived experience of ordinary Han settlers, Oil and Water provides an entirely new perspective on Chinese nation building in the twenty-first century and demonstrates the vital role that Xinjiang Han play in national politics—not simply as Beijing’s pawns, but as individuals pursuing their own survival and dreams on the frontier

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