The round table first presents a new book by the Oriental Institute’s Research Fellow Ondřej Klimeš Struggle by the Pen: The Uyghur Discourse of Nation and National Interest, c. 1900-1949 (Brill, 2015), which explores the emergence of national consciousness and nationalist ideology of Uyghurs in Xinjiang from c. 1900-1949. Drawing from texts...
Abstract Past years have brought resurgence of scholarly interest in the rule of the Chinese Communist Party, and having thus reevaluated the previously valid framework of “the coming collapse of the Chinese party-state” in observing contemporary politics in the People’s Republic of China. There is a general consensus that the PRC continues...