Vectors of Contemporary Ethnic, Social, and Cultural Development of the Xinjiang Uyghur
[Vektory sovremennogo etnosotsial’nogo i etnokul’turnogo razvitiia uigur Sin’tzian-Uigurskogo avtonomnogo raiona]
Type of publication: Research Article
Submitted: 12.05.2016
Accepted: 01.07.2016
About author(s)
Jiangang Wang | http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5376-6518 | w.j.gang2005@gmail.com | Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (32-a Leninsky prospekt, Moscow, 119991, Russia)
Keywords
China, Xinjiang, national identity, ethnic identity, cultural identity, social and economic situation, demographic factors, cultural and religious aspects
Abstract
The population of Xinjiang, an autonomous region of China, is ethnically and culturally diverse. There are a variety of the factors influencing ways of life and identities of different population groups, such as historical, geographical conditions, and others. The author draws on ethnographic and sociological sources, as well as statistical data and content analysis, to explore the trends of contemporary development of ethnic, social, and cultural situation in the region.
Citation
Wang, Jiangang. 2017. Vektory sovremennogo etnosotsial’nogo i etnokul’turnogo razvitiia uigur Sin’tzian-Uigurskogo avtonomnogo raiona [Vectors of Contemporary Ethnic, Social, and Cultural Development of the Xinjiang Uyghur]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 2: 166-177
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