Language, Education and Uyghur Identity in Urban Xinjiang - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language, Education and Uyghur Identity in Urban Xinjiang write by Joanne Smith Finley. This book was released on 2015-10-30. Language, Education and Uyghur Identity in Urban Xinjiang available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the regional lingua franca, the Uyghur language long underpinned Uyghur national identity in Xinjiang. However, since the ‘bilingual education’ policy was introduced in 2002, Chinese has been rapidly institutionalised as the sole medium of instruction in the region’s institutes of education. As a result, studies of the bilingual and indeed multi-lingual Uyghur urban youth have emerged as a major new research trend. This book explores the relationship between language, education and identity among the urban Uyghurs of contemporary Xinjiang. It considers ways in which Uyghur urban youth identities began to evolve in response to the state imposition of ‘bilingual education’. Starting by defining the notion of ethnic identity, the book explores the processes involved in the formation and development of personal and group identities, considers why ethnic boundaries are constructed between groups, and questions how ethnic identity is expressed in social, cultural and religious practice. Against this background, contributors adopt a special focus on the relationship between language use, education and ethnic identity development. As a study of ethnicity in China this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Chinese culture and society, Asian ethnicity, cultural anthropology, sociolinguistics and Asian education.
Uyghurs and Uyghur Identity
Uyghurs and Uyghur Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uyghurs and Uyghur Identity write by Dolkun Kamberi, Ph. D. This book was released on 2015-10-26. Uyghurs and Uyghur Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Archaeological excavations and historical records show that Uyghur-land is the most important repository of Uyghur and Central Asian treasures.This publication gives the reader a full description of Uyghur cultural identity.
Securing China's Northwest Frontier
Securing China's Northwest Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Securing China's Northwest Frontier write by David Tobin. This book was released on 2020-10. Securing China's Northwest Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. David Tobin analyses how Chinese nation-building shapes identity and security dynamics between Han and Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
Down a Narrow Road
Down a Narrow Road - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Down a Narrow Road write by Jay Dautcher. This book was released on 2009. Down a Narrow Road available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The narrative is framed around the terms identity, community, and masculinity. As the author shows, the Uyghurs of Yining, a city in the Xinjiang region of China, express a set of individual and collective identities organized around place, gender, family relations, friendships, occupation, and religious practice.
The Art of Symbolic Resistance
The Art of Symbolic Resistance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Symbolic Resistance write by Joanne N. Smith Finley. This book was released on 2013-09-12. The Art of Symbolic Resistance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Against the background of the Ürümchi riots (July 2009), this book provides a longitudinal study of contemporary Uyghur identities and Uyghur-Han relations. Previous studies considered China’s Uyghurs from the perspective of the majority Han (state or people). Conversely, The Art of Symbolic Resistance considers Uyghur identities from a local perspective, based on interviews conducted with group members over nearly twenty years. Smith Finley rejects assertions that the Uyghur ethnic group is a ‘creation of the Chinese state’, suggesting that contemporary Uyghur identities involve a complex interplay between long-standing intra-group socio-cultural commonalities and a more recently evolved sense of common enmity towards the Han. This book advances the discipline in three senses: from a focus on sporadic violent opposition to one on everyday symbolic resistance; from state to ‘local’ representations; and from a conceptualisation of Uyghurs as ‘victim’ to one of ‘creative agent’.
