What Can China's Identity Politics Tell Us About Affirmative Action?
New Books in Chinese Studies
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The Pattern of Chinese Regional Ethnic Politics
Peter Bergen: You've written a book about ethnic politics in China that focuses basically on these peripheral regions of Xinjiang and Tibet. Despite their separationist tendencies, you show they're not likely to escape Chinese control. And you argue that this has to do with the pattern of Chinese state building over the centuries. I wonder if you could explain to people how these three cases of empires have developed and what the implications of that are for contemporary Chinese regional ethnic politics.Bergen: Finally, we've been talking about doing this for a long time and finally it's happening. So I'm very happy about that.
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