Zhang / McGhee Social Policies and Ethnic Conflict in China

Lessons from Xinjiang
2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-43666-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 205 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Politics and Development of Contemporary China

This study addresses how China's policy response to problems in Xinjiang is interpreted and implemented by officials, who are both governing agents and governed subjects by interviewing Chinese officials working in both Central government and Local governments.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhang, S.

McGhee, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. The Partner Assistant Programme: the Examination of Policies and Unintended Consequences 3. Fieldwork in China 4. The Configuration of Xinjiang's Problems 5. Multi-Layered 'Unification': The Examination of Government Practices in PAP 6. Infrastructures of the Communist Party in Discourse Making and Resistances of Han Officials in Governing Uygur People 7. Discussion 8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Shaoying Zhang is Associate Professor of Sociology at Yunnan Normal University, China.   Derek McGhee is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton, UK.