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China's Race Problem: How Beijing Represses Minorities
Ist Teil von
Foreign Affairs, 2015-05, Vol.94 (3), p.39-46
Ort / Verlag
New York: Council on Foreign Relations
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
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For all the tremendous change China has experienced in recent decades, the country has made little progress when it comes to the treatment of its ethnic minorities, most of whom live in China's sparsely populated frontier regions. Indeed, one of those regions, Tibet, represents one of the "three Ts" -- taboo topics that the Chinese government has long forbidden its citizens to discuss openly. The other two are Taiwan and the Tiananmen Square uprising of 1989. Although traditional Chinese thought posited the superiority of Chinese culture, it was not explicitly racist. But during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Chinese intellectuals who had studied in Japan began bringing home new, more essentialist ideas about race and ethnicity. Chinese scholars adopted the Japanese term minzoku-shugi (minzu zhuyi in Chinese), which Chinese speakers use today as the equivalent of "nationalism." But as the historian Frank Dikotter has argued, minzu zhuyi literally meant 'racism,' and expressed a nationalist vision of race.