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128649
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I have just sold my house which, at a range of 4000 miles, is a complicated business. Not least of the challengers was the transfer of legal documents: whilst the contract could by dint of my emailed permission, be signed my solicitor, the transfer deed had to be signed personally by me. In this electronic age, the couriered exchange of documents just to facilitate my ballpoint scrawl in the corner seemed rather anachronistic.
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177581
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Policies introduced by the Chinese government in the name of fighting terrorism, religious extremism and separatism have significantly reshaped the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) – even though securitization has not brought the ‘stability’ that the PRC government claims in its continuous defense of its policies. Analysis of Chinese legal documents can provide a clearer picture of the government’s intentions in the region, since they are almost free from the propaganda ballast abundant in Chinese policy documents. This article analyses recent amendments to two legal documents, the Religious Affairs Regulations and the Regulations of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on Religious Affairs. It discusses why certain articles were omitted, modified or added and what this can tell us about the situation in China and in particular in Xinjiang. It also suggests that Xinjiang has been a testing site for national religious policy, not just new surveillance methods.
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177580
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Based on a close reading of five legal documents from Kucha, this paper explores judicial practice in Xinjiang in the Republican era. The documents all relate to members of the same family and open a window on to property transactions, family structure and local political administration at the lowest levels of government, across a long enough period to show change over time. Touching upon diverse social practices such as inheritance, the sale of land and making a pledge, the documents demonstrate the mutual integration of Islamic and state law, simultaneously revealing strategies to narrate and constitute social relationships.
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