China's Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State
Author: Nick Holdstock
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Print Length: 320 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Journalism, History, Political Science
Area: Xinjiang, East Turkistan, China
Topic: Uyghur, Muslim, War on Terror, Ethnic Cleansing, Repression, Persecution, Lived Experience, Internment, Camps, Ethnic & Ethnicity, History, Politics & Power, Geopolitics, State Formation, Independence & Liberation, Communism, Minority Rights, Exile, Refugees & Forced Migration, Technology & Surveillance, Torture
After isolated terrorist incidents in 2015, the Chinese leadership has cracked down hard on Xinjiang and its Uyghurs. Today, there are thought to be up to a million Muslims held in ‘re-education camps’ in the Xinjiang region of North-West China. One of the few Western commentators to have lived in the region, journalist Nick Holdstock travels into the heart of the province and reveals the Uyghur story as one of repression, hardship and helplessness. China’s Forgotten People explains why repression of the Muslim population is on the rise in the world’s most powerful one-party state. This updated and revised edition reveals the background to the largest known concentration camp network in the modern world, and reflects on what this means for the way we think about China.
Table of Contents
Maps
A Note of Place & Names
Introduction
1. Drawing Boundaries
2. ‘Liberation’: The Communist Era Begins
3. ‘Opening Up’
4. Striking Hard: The 1990s
5. Exiles
6. The Peacock Flies West
7. Urumqi and After: Learning the Wrong Lessons
8. ‘A Perfect Bomb’
Sources and Recommended Reading
Index
Nick Holdstock is a teacher, journalist and author of fiction and non-fiction. He spent three and half years in China as a Voluntary Service Overseas teacher. His first book, The Tree That Bleeds (Luath, 2012) was a memoir of the year he spent living in China’s western Xinjiang region. His second book, China’s Forgotten People (IB Tauris 2015), examined the history and politics of this region in more depth and was very well reviewed. His first novel, The Casualties (St Martins, 2015) was described as ‘a brilliant, one-of-a-kind story…a lightning bolt of a book.’ He also writes journalism and reviews for a wide variety of publications, such as London Review of Books, Literary Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, n+1, Dissent and the Independent. His short fiction has appeared in publications such as the Southern Review and the Manchester Review; in 2014 his story ‘Ward’ won the Willesden Herald International short story prize. His current projects include working on a new novel and a non-fiction book about Chinese urbanisation.
Source: https://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowships/nick-holdstock/
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