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Author Davis, Elizabeth Van Wie

Title Ruling, resources and religion in China : managing the multiethnic state in the 21st century / by Elizabeth Van Wie Davis
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Contents Ruling & Governance -- Leadership & Resources -- Regional Challenges for Resources and Religion -- Tibet Question -- Uyghur Question -- Ruling, Resources and Religion -- Outcomes
Summary China is not an easy country to rule: it is experiencing rapid growth and with it rapid social change. Resources and religion are two of the most difficult of its challenges, and their combination with ethnicity is not unique to China. It may well be one of the major underlying currents of the 21st century and is present throughout Asia--with the Baloch of Pakistan, the Kurds of Iraq and Turkey, and the Timorese of the former island of East Timor in Indonesia, now Timor-Lest. In all these nations, as in China, ethnic identity, often united with religious differences, is driven by the presence of valuable resources to create a nationalism with economic underpinnings. However, as Van Wie Davis shows, with China the outcome is vital, as how it copes with the pressures for good governance with the Asian economic model, treats its ethnic minorities under scrutiny, and gathers resources to fuel its dynamic economy impacts us all
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Multiculturalism -- China
Minorities -- Government policy -- China
Minorities -- China -- Social conditions
Religion & politics -- China.
Development studies -- China.
Central government policies -- China.
Environmental management -- China.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Religion.
Minorities -- Government policy
Minorities -- Social conditions
Multiculturalism
Politics and government
SUBJECT China -- Politics and government -- 2002- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004009498
Subject China
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137033840
1137033843
9781283867764
1283867761