The war on the Uyghurs : China's internal campaign against a Muslim minority / Sean R. Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Sean R., author.

Series:

Princeton studies in Muslim politics.

Princeton studies in Muslim politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--China.

Muslims.

China--Ethnic relations.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford, UK : Princeton University Press, [2020]

Summary:

How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang regionWithin weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government warned that it faced a serious terrorist threat from its Uyghur ethnic minority, who are largely Muslim. In this explosive book, Sean Roberts reveals how China has been using the US-led global war on terror as international cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghurs, and how the war's targeting of an undefined enemy has emboldened states around the globe to persecute ethnic minorities and severely repress domestic opposition in the name of combatting terrorism.Of the eleven million Uyghurs living in China today, more than one million are now being held in so-called reeducation camps, victims of what has become the largest program of mass detention and surveillance in the world. Roberts describes how the Chinese government successfully implicated the Uyghurs in the global terror war—despite a complete lack of evidence—and branded them as a dangerous terrorist threat with links to al-Qaeda. He argues that the reframing of Uyghur domestic dissent as international terrorism provided justification and inspiration for a systematic campaign to erase Uyghur identity, and that a nominal Uyghur militant threat only emerged after more than a decade of Chinese suppression in the name of counterterrorism—which has served to justify further state repression.A gripping and moving account of the humanitarian catastrophe that China does not want you to know about, The War on the Uyghurs draws on Roberts's own in-depth interviews with the Uyghurs, enabling their voices to be heard.

Contents:

Frontmatter

About the author

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

1. Colonialism, 1759–2001

2. How the Uyghurs became a ‘terrorist threat’

3. Myths and realities of the alleged ‘terrorist threat’ associated with Uyghurs

4. Colonialism meets counterterrorism, 2002–2012

5. The self-fulfilling prophecy and the ‘People’s War on Terror,’ 2013–2016

6. Cultural genocide, 2017–2020

Conclusion

A note on methodology

Transliteration and place names

List of figures

List of abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691202211

0691202214

OCLC:

1165409493