Book contents
- From Empire to Nation State
- From Empire to Nation State
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction What Is Destabilizing about China’s Ethnic Regions?
- 1 Changing Approaches to Identity
- 2 Changing Approaches to Ethnic Governance
- 3 Changing Approaches to Policy Instruments
- 4 The Rise of Identity Politics in Post-Mao China
- 5 Ethnic Autonomy and Its Discontents
- 6 Religious Revival and Its Discontents
- 7 Economic Modernization and Its Discontents
- 8 Educational Expansion and Its Discontents
- Conclusion From Empire to Nation State: Lessons and Reforms
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction - What Is Destabilizing about China’s Ethnic Regions?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2020
- From Empire to Nation State
- From Empire to Nation State
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction What Is Destabilizing about China’s Ethnic Regions?
- 1 Changing Approaches to Identity
- 2 Changing Approaches to Ethnic Governance
- 3 Changing Approaches to Policy Instruments
- 4 The Rise of Identity Politics in Post-Mao China
- 5 Ethnic Autonomy and Its Discontents
- 6 Religious Revival and Its Discontents
- 7 Economic Modernization and Its Discontents
- 8 Educational Expansion and Its Discontents
- Conclusion From Empire to Nation State: Lessons and Reforms
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Why have some minority regions experienced more unrest than others and in more volatile ways in China’s reform era? Why have ethnic mobilization and violence occurred only in the two outer peripheral regions, Tibet and Xinjiang? This study examines these puzzles from the perspective of China’s twofold transition from empire to a modern nation state. That is, the integration of frontier regions into a nation state with predominantly ethnic Han Chinese. The first transition was from empire to the autonomous system in the socialist era. The second transition was from the socialist era (1949–78) to the reform era (1978–present).
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- From Empire to Nation StateEthnic Politics in China, pp. 1 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020