The Uyghur lobby : global networks, coalitions and strategies of the world Uyghur congress /

The Uyghur lobby : global networks, coalitions and strategies of the world Uyghur congress / Yu-Wen Chen.

"The Uyghur Lobby is the first systematic and contemporary examination of the global operations of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC). The Uyghur lobby is not a unified movement; wide divisions exist regarding how activists should promote national self-determination. The localization of the moveme...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Chen, Youwen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2014]
Series:Routledge contemporary China series.
Subjects:
Uighur (Turkic people) > Politics and government.
Uighur (Turkic people) > Ethnic identity.
Uighur (Turkic people) > Government relations.
Ethnic relations.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) > Politics and government.
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) > Ethnic relations.
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) > Social conditions.
China > Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The rise of the World Uyghur Congress
  • 3. International networks
  • 4. Online networks
  • 5. A minor but rising influence in America
  • 6. Struggling for attention in Germany
  • 7. Uyghur networks in Japan
  • 8. China's competing discourses and strategies
  • 9. Conclusions.

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