Cultural Security in Contemporary China and Mongolia applies the term cultural security not 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. Markers of cultural identity differ according to an inside and outside perspective and can be re-defined according to inner or outer circumstances. Importance of these markers increases when a community feels endangered in their cultural existence, or diminishes when perceived cultural identity is not questioned. The dynamics shaping cultural security are illustrated in examples of ethnic communities in the Peoples Republic of China and in Mongolia.
1. The Cultural Security of Ethnic Groups in Contemporary China and
Mongolia,
2. Cultural Security in the Peoples Republic of China: Between
Party-State Invocation/Formalization and Academic Theorization,
3. Taking
Sides: Differences in How the Peoples Republic of China Securitizes Uyghur
and Hui Muslims,
4. Muslims with Chinese Characteristics: Changing the Image
of Ningxia after 2017,
5. Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Heroes in Modern
Uyghur Literature,
6. Language Ideologies and Cultural Security: The Status
and Meanings of the Uyghur Language,
7. Local Cultural Inclusion in the
Context of Partnership Assistance to Tibet: A Case Study on Klu-Nang
Townships Tourism Development Project,
8. Adaptation of the Offering to the
Mountain Deity among the Qiang in Northwest Sichuan: Cultural Security on
Multiple Levels,
9. Against Flattening of Ridges and Ravines: (Dis)locating
Cultural Security Through Writing with the Yi of Southwest China,
10. Hong
Kong and Scalable Cultural Security,
11. Cultural Survival and National
Identity in Contemporary Mongolia, List of Authors, Index
Jarmila Ptácková is Research Fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on Chinese development policy and subsequent social and economic changes in Chinas Tibetan areas, on Chinas ethnic policy, and on the role of Tibetans in PRCs cultural and economic diplomacy towards Nepal. 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, with a focus on China's ethnic policy, political system, ideology and propaganda, and on the Uyghur national movement.
