This highly original work of anthropology combines extensive ethnographic fieldwork and investigative journalism to explain how security is understood, experien

David Tobin analyses how Chinese nation-building shapes identity and security dynamics between Han and Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

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In the early twentieth century, Chinese intellectuals came to realize that Westerners surpassed them not only in knowledge of the world, but also in knowledge o