Contents

Preface

Introduction

MORRIS ROSSABI

1 /White Hats, Oil Cakes, and Common Blood
The Hui in the Contemporary Chinese State

JONATHAN N. LIPMAN

2 /The Challenge of Sipsong Panna in the Southwest
Development, Resources, and Power in a Multiethnic China

METTE HALSKOV HANSEN

3/Inner Mongolia
The Dialectics of Colonization and Ethnicity Building

URADYN E. BULAG

4/Heteronomy and Its Discontents
“Minzu Regional Autonomy” in Xinjiang

GARDNER BOVINGDON

5/Making Xinjiang Safe for the Han?
Contradictions and Ironies of Chinese Governance in China’s Northwest

DAVID BACHMAN

6/Tibet and China in the Twentieth Century

MELVYN C. GOLDSTEIN

7/A Thorn in the Dragon’s Side
Tibetan Buddhist Culture in China

MATTHEW T. KAPSTEIN

Bibliography

Contributors

Index