| Sinicization
Beyond the Great Wall |
£20.00
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| China's
Xianjiang Uighur Autonomous Region |
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by Anwar Rahman
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Being a native from
Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, the largest and
most remote Chinese province in Central Asia, the
author has described, based on his personal
experiences and considerable amounts of official
documents, Xinjiang and particularly its native
indigenous people under the Chinese rule since the
People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949. The
highlights of the book are the author’s analyses on
the modern Chinese policies towards its minority
nationals, such as those in the domains of culture
and economy; which are used, according to the
conclusions of the book, as instruments to stimulate
the process of sinicization.
The book is also a study of China’s minority
nationals’ affairs; it will be a useful handbook for
those interested in both China’s ethnic problems and
Central Asian studies. Further, the book is a
collection of first hand information, official
documents and statistics about the Uighur people,
which has certainly a greater referential value than
has ever been found before in academic circles.
The 1999 Annual Report (92 pages) of Amnesty
international entitled “People’s Republic of China -
Gross Violations of Human Rights in the Xinjiang
Uighur Autonomous region”, has a large amount of
information on the present situation in Xinjiang.
Indeed, Xinjiang has become more and more familiar
to those who keep a close look at China’s human
rights records, its minority policies, and its
economic exploitation into the heart of Central
Asia. This book doesn’t deal directly with China’s
human rights record, but gives some solid evidence
and concrete details on Chinese discriminative
policies over the minority population in Xinjiang,
notably the phenomenon of sinicization under the
pretext to help develop the region’s economy.
Readers will learn how a Chinese style colonisation
is carried out, one that is entirely different to
that of Western history. |
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ISBN: 1-904744-88-5
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http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=204 |