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(Re)Embracing Islam in Neidi: the ‘Xinjiang Class’ and the dynamics of Uyghur ethno-national identity / Grose, Timothy

Grose, Timothy	Article
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This Xinjiang Class is a four-year, national-level boarding school program established by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the year 2000. The overarching aim of the program is clear: the CCP intends to train a core group of young Uyghurs who have internalized the ideals of the Party. This article, which is based on interviews and regular interaction with over 60 graduates of the Xinjiang Class, casts doubt on whether the boarding schools have been effective in ‘interpellating’ young Uyghurs as compliant members of the Chinese Nation (Zhonghua minzu). This article contends that Uyghur graduates of the Xinjiang Class have instead embraced a non-Chinese ethno-national identity—an identity bound by Central Asian and Islamic cultural norms—and have largely rejected the Zhonghua minzu identity.

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National Identity ; CCP ; Chinese Communist Party ; Islamic Cultural ; (Re)embracing Islam ; Neidi ;
Xinjiang Class ; Uyghur Ethno ; Zhonghua Minzu ; Embracing Islam

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Racial modernity in Republican China, 1927-1937 / Foreman, Matthew Wong

Foreman, Matthew Wong	Journal Article
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This article locates the moment in Chinese history when ethnicity became a subject of scientific concern and an object of social engineering. Specifically, it examines how Han Chinese academicians during the Nanjing decade (1927–37) argued for the necessity of social engineering by appealing to race science. Focusing on a debate between the eugenicist Pan Guangdan and the anthropologist Wu Zelin, it argues that the Nanjing decade witnessed a key moment of ideological convergence in the physical and social sciences. Academicians concerned with national and racial salvation believed in awakening the Chinese population’s racial consciousness, which could only be achieved through rigorous social engineering. To justify the state’s homogenizing claims over ethnic minorities, they appealed to the doctrine of racial homogeneity, capitalized on the increasing cultural authority of scientific empiricism to recruit political allies to their cause, and endeavored to embed the ‘fact’ of ‘race’ from specialized disciplines to political institutions.

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Science ; Social Engineering ; Zhonghua Minzu ; Pan Guangdan ; Wu Zelin ; Chinese Race

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