Cultural Security in Contemporary China and Mongolia

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-94-6372-288-9
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 649 g

Cultural Security in Contemporary China and Mongolia applies the term “cultural security” not exclusively to state- or institution-implemented processes, but also considers the indigenous, bottom-up, and inside-out mechanisms of establishing and maintaining communal cultural security of an ethnic group. Markers of cultural identity differ according to an inside and outside perspective and can be re-defined according to inner or outer circumstances. Importance of these markers increases when a community feels endangered in their cultural existence, or diminishes when perceived cultural identity is not questioned. The dynamics shaping cultural security are illustrated in examples of ethnic communities in the People’s Republic of China and in Mongolia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ptácková, Jarmila

Klimes, Ondrej

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Cultural Security of Ethnic Groups in Contemporary China and Mongolia - Jarmila Ptáková and Ondrej Klimes

2. Cultural Security in the People’s Republic of China: Between Party-State Invocation/Formalization and Academic Theorization - Mohammed Alsudairi

3. Taking Sides: Differences in How the People’s Republic of China Securitizes Uyghur and Hui Muslims - Hacer Z. Gonul and Julius M. Rogenhofer

4. Muslims with Chinese Characteristics: Changing the Image of Ningxia after 2017 - Jarmila Ptá.ková

5. Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Heroes in Modern Uyghur Literature - Michal Zelcer–Lavid

6. Language Ideologies and Cultural Security: The Status and Meanings of the Uyghur Language - Giulia Cabras

7. Local Cultural Inclusion in the Context of Partnership Assistance to Tibet: A Case Study on Klu-Nang Township’s Tourism Development Project - Yang Minghong and Zeng Benxiang

8. Adaptation of the Offering to the Mountain Deity among the Qiang in Northwest Sichuan: Cultural Security on Multiple Levels - Bian Simei

9. Against Flattening of Ridges and Ravines: (Dis)locating Cultural Security Through Writing with the Yi of Southwest China - Jan Karlach

10. Hong Kong and Scalable Cultural Security - Gabriel Thorne

11. Cultural Survival and National Identity in Contemporary Mongolia - Mei-hua Lan

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Über Autor(innen)

Klimes, Ondrej
Ondrej Klimes is Research Fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His expertise is in modern and contemporary Xinjiang and China, with a focus on China's ethnic policy, political system, ideology and propaganda, and on the Uyghur national movement.

Ptácková, Jarmila
Jarmila Ptácková is Research Fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on Chinese development policy and subsequent social and economic changes in China’s Tibetan areas, on China’s ethnic policy, and on the role of Tibetans in PRC’s cultural and economic diplomacy towards Nepal.