While the Chinese Communist Party has long implemented a colonial-paternalist mode of governance over Tibetans and Uyghurs, there is a curious phenomenon of a notable
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A Hong Kong Marxist’s critique of China’s 2026 “Ethnic Unity Law” On July 1, 2026, the “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” came into
Popular culture taught generations to admire resistance to colonialism; nationalism turned ‘firstness’ into claims of exclusive ownership For many Europeans, the word “Indigenous” evokes two
AI, Energy, and Settler Colonialism in Inner Mongolia Bill Bishop’s reporting this morning on Li Qiang and Ding Xuexiang’s recent comments on AI and computing
A 2021 Ministry of Education directive – the Children’s Speech Harmonization plan – mandates the use of standard Mandarin Chinese for all preschool instruction and
A critical reflection on Phuntsok Wangyal and the rise and fall of the Tibetan Communist Party This essay by Tibetan-Canadian journalist and poet Kalden Dhatsenpa
This month, China’s National People’s Congress held its annual meeting and passed a new law on ‘promoting ethnic unity and progress’. The legislation further codifies
On a clear October morning in 2025, two massive cranes rolled up to a middle school in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Workers prised
How Thailand and China solved their nation-building dilemma Henry Rory O’Connor: Who is the Chinese population of Thailand? What does the rest of the country’s
Dibyesh Anand and Nitasha Kaul (eds), Contemporary Colonialities: Kurds and Kashmiris (London: University of Westminster Press, 2025), 133 pp. Mahmood Mamdani has argued that the
Modern China has inherited not only a large territory but also many ethnic groups from the Manchu Qing Empire it overthrew in 1912. How to