China's Forgotten People

Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State

Nick Holdstock (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2019
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78831-979-9 (ISBN)

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After isolated terrorist incidents in 2015, the Chinese leadership has cracked down hard on Xinjiang and its Uyghurs. Today, there are thought to be up to a million Muslims held in 're-education camps' in the Xinjiang region of North-West China. One of the few Western commentators to have lived in the region, journalist Nick Holdstock travels into the heart of the province and reveals the Uyghur story as one of repression, hardship and helplessness. China's Forgotten People explains why repression of the Muslim population is on the rise in the world's most powerful one-party state. This updated and revised edition reveals the background to the largest known concentration camp network in the modern world, and reflects on what this means for the way we think about China.

Nick Holdstock is an award-winning writer of fiction and journalism whose work appears in The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, Financial Times, n+1, Dissent and Literary Review. He is the author of three non-fiction books about China, The Tree That Bleeds (Luath, 2011), China's Forgotten People (IB Tauris, 2015) and Chasing the Chinese Dream (IB Tauris, 2017) and a novel, The Casualties (St Martins, 2015). His first short story collection, The False River, is due out in late 2019. He is a frequent commentator on China for a variety of media outlets.

Maps
A Note of Place Names
Foreword to the New Edition: The Camps and the Future of Xinjang
Introduction
1 Drawing Boundaries
2 'Liberation': The Communist Era Begins
3 'Opening Up'
4 Striking Hard: The 1990s
5 Exiles
6 The Peacock Flies West
7 Urumqi and After: Learning the Wrong Lessons
8 'A Perfect Bomb'
Postscript to the New Edition: A Warning from History
Sources and Recommended Reading
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.05.2019
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	372 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-78831-979-6 / 1788319796
ISBN-13	978-1-78831-979-9 / 9781788319799
Zustand	Neuware