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There are some serious concerns and critical questions about the on-going minority protesting in China, such as Tibetan monks' self-immolations, Muslims' suicide bombings, and Uyghur large-scale demonstrations. Why are minorities such as the Uyghur dissatisfied, when China is rising as a world power

Résumé :
Introduction: Beijing's Dream and Ethnic Reality, Xiaobing Li and Patrick Fuliang Shan Part I: Perception, Definition, and Identity Chapter One: From Five Imperial Domains to a Chinese Nation: A Perceptual and Political Transformation in Recent History, Xiaoyuan Liu Chapter Two: Elastic Self-Consciousness and the Reshaping of Manchu Identity, Patrick Fuliang Shan Chapter Three: Muslim Voices in the Late Qing Debate over the Definitions of Guo and Zu, Yufeng Mao Party Two: Policy and Marginality Chapter Four: Uyghur Women in Xinjiang: Political Participation, Employment, and Birth Control, Xiaoxiao Li and Mei Zhou Chapter Five: Commodifying Naxi and Mo-So Minorities in China's New Economy, Linda Q. Wang Chapter Six: The Hui People: Policies, Development, and Problems, Ting Jiang and Xiansheng Tian Chapter Seven: The Protestant Church Shortage and Religious Market in China: Spatial and Statistical Perspectives, Zhaohui Hong, Lu Cao, and Jiamin Yan Part Three: Relations, Confrontation, and Solution Chapter Eight: Still Familiar But No Longer Strangers: Muslims in China, Jieli Li and Lei Ji Chapter Nine: Faith and Freedom: Tibetan Buddhist Movements, Xiaobing Li Chapter Ten: Struggling for a Better Solution: Communist Government and Minorities, Qiang Fang Chapter Eleven: The Tibet Issue and U.S. Tibet Policy, Guangqiu Xu Conclusion: New Challenge and Potential Prospects, Xiaobing Li and Patrick Fuliang Shan...

Biographie:

Xiaobing Li is professor and chair of the Department of History and Geography and director of the Western Pacific Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Patrick F. Shan is associate professor of history at Grand Valley State University.