Cultural Security in Contemporary China and Mongolia
9789463722889
292 pages
Amsterdam University Press
Overview
The chapters in this volume explore the major cultural markers by which an ethnic community defines its cultural identity and cultural affiliation. These markers can differ when perceived as coming from, within, or from outside of, a group and can be re-defined according to inner (or outer) circumstances. Their importance can increase when a community feels endangered in their cultural existence or diminish, when perceived cultural identity of a group and its members is not questioned. This collective monograph thus not only applies the term “cultural security” exclusively to state- or institution-implemented processes, but also considers the indigenous, bottom-up, and inside-out mechanisms of establishing and maintaining communal cultural security of an ethnic group. The dynamics shaping cultural security are illustrated on examples of ethnic communities in the People’s Republic of China and in Mongolia
Author Bio
Jarmila Ptá.ková graduated from and earned her PhD at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, specializing in Chinese and Tibetan Studies. Her research focuses mainly on Chinese development policy and subsequent social and economic changes in China’s Tibetan areas, on China’s ethnic policy, and on the role of China’s minorities in the PRC’s cultural diplomacy. Currently, she is affiliated with the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague.
Ondrej Klimes is Research Fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His expertise is in modern and contemporary Xinjiang and China politics with focus on ethnic policy, political system, ideology and propaganda, and Uyghur national movement.
