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The Chinese
Oxford University Press, USA 2002; US$ 18.99In The Chinese, Jasper Becker, China's premier western correspondent, strips the country of its myths and captures the Chinese as they really live. For nearly two decades Becker has lived in China, and reported from areas where most visitors do not reach. Here he is at his most candid, reporting from all over the country: from tiny, crowded homes... more...
Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 130.00The purpose of this book is to examine the strategies and practices of the Han Chinese Nationalists vis-à-vis post-Qing China?s ethnic minorities, as well as to explore the role they played in the formation of contemporary China?s Central Asian frontier territoriality and border security. The Chinese Revolution of 1911, initiated by Sun Yat-sen,... more...
Coming to Terms with the Nation
University of California Press 2010; US$ 29.95China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, or minzu, as groups entitled to representation. This controversial new book recounts the history of the most sweeping attempt to sort and categorize the... more...
International Ethnic Networks and Intra-Ethnic Conflict
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00Since the normalization of Sino-Korean diplomatic relations in 1992, many South Koreans have moved to China for business, education, and other purposes. There they have encountered Korean-Chinese; ethnic Koreans who have lived in China for decades. This has lead to 'intra-ethnic conflict' which has divided Korean communities. more...
A Comparative Study of Minority Development in China and Canada
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00Drawing upon the latest statistics and detailed interviews, this book examines the experiences of ethnic minorities from schooling to the job search, hiring, and promotion processes. more...
Passage to Manhood
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 22.95Passage to Manhood is a groundbreaking and beautifully written ethnography that addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and AIDS as they intersect in a new "rite-of-passage" among young ethnic-minority males in contemporary China. more...
Visuality and Identity
University of California Press 2007; US$ 60.00Shu-mei Shih inaugurates the field of Sinophone studies in this vanguard excursion into sophisticated cultural criticism situated at the intersections of Chinese studies, Asian American studies, diaspora studies, and transnational studies. Arguing that the visual has become the primary means of mediating identities under global capitalism, Shih examines... more...
The Uyghurs
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 49.99For close to half a century, the Uyghur people of Xinjiang, in northwestern China, have struggled to achieve autonomy and independence. As reflected by recent events, however, their efforts have been met mostly with violent resistance, matched by a sophisticated strategy of state-sanctioned propaganda, dissident broadsides, and viral ethnonational... more...
Islam, Family Life, and Gender Inequality in Urban China
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 135.00This book studies the relationship between Islam, family processes, and gender inequality among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi, China. Empirically, it shows in quantitative terms the extent of gender inequalities among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi and tests whether the gender inequalities are a difference in kind or in degree. It examines five aspects of... more...
China's Ethnic Minorities and Globalisation
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 49.95China's fifty-five officially recognised ethnic minorities form about 8% of the Chinese population, with over 100 million people, and occupy over 60% of China's territory. They are very diverse, and the degree of modernisation among them varies greatly. This book examines the current state of China's ethnic minorities at a time when ethnic affairs... more...









