TY  - Policy report

AU  - Nathan Ruser
AU  - James Leibold
AU  - Kelsey Munro
AU  - et al.
PY  - 2020
T1  - Cultural erasure: tracing the destruction of Uyghur and Islamic spaces in Xinjiang
PB  - International Cyber Policy Centre


DO  - https://doi.org/APO-308483
UR  - https://apo.org.au/node/308483

AB  - The Chinese state has long sought to ‘transform’ and ‘civilise’ Xinjiang, but Xi Jinping and his lieutenants bring a new sense of urgency to this colonialist project. Under the guise of combating perceived ‘religious extremism’ and promoting ‘inter-ethnic mingling’, Chinese officials are slowly but systematically stripping away those elements of Uyghur culture they deem to be ‘foreign’, ‘backward’, ‘abnormal’ or simply out of sync with Han-centric norms.
ER  -