Paved with Good Intentions: Proposals to Curb Minority Rights and Their Consequences for China

被引:16
作者
Sautman, Barry [1 ]
机构
[1] Hong Kong Univ Sci & Technol, Div Social Sci, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
来源
MODERN CHINA | 2012年 / 38卷 / 01期
关键词
minority rights; ethnic regional autonomy; preferential policies; Ma Rong; ETHNIC-MINORITIES; AUTONOMY;
D O I
10.1177/0097700411424563
中图分类号
K9 [地理];
学科分类号
0705 ;
摘要
Since 2004, academics concerned about a prospective fracturing of China's territory have advanced proposals to phase out ethnic regional autonomy, preferential policies, and other minority rights. Riots in Lhasa, Tibet, in 2008 and Urumqi, Xinjiang, in 2009 gave greater impetus to the proposals, as they moved from academic to wider circles and complaints about preferential policies in criminal justice, family planning, and school admissions grew, with even state recognition of minorities challenged. Yet many minority and some Han intellectuals continue to see the proposals as deleterious to interethnic and minority-state relations and arguments for them based on practices in the United States and India have lacked persuasive power. The state has reacted to this discourse by reemphasizing existing policies, but it has also brought about a "subtle shift" in ethnic policies since 2010, albeit not the shift that proponents of curbing minority rights have sought.
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页码:10 / 39
页数:30
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