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The art of symbolic resistance : Uyghur identities and Uyghur-Han relations in contemporary Xinjiang / by Joanne Smith Finley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith Finley, Joanne.
- Series:
- Brill's Inner Asian library ; v. 30.
- Brill's inner Asian library, 1566-7162 ; Volume 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Uighur (Turkic people)--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--Ethnic identity.
- Uighur (Turkic people).
- Uighur (Turkic people)--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--Government relations.
- Government, Resistance to--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
- Government, Resistance to.
- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--Ethnic relations.
- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (484 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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’.
- Contents:
- part one. The art of symbolic resistance
- part two. Sounds of discontent
- part three. 'Silence' : after the 1997 Ghulja disturbances.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-25678-4
- OCLC:
- 860910493
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004256781 DOI
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