Ruling, resources and religion in China : Managing the multiethnic state in the 21st century

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Ruling, resources and religion in China : Managing the multiethnic state in the 21st century

Title remainder

Managing the multiethnic state in the 21st century

Statement of responsibility

Elizabeth Van Wie Davis

Creator

• Davis, Elizabeth Van Wie

Subject

• China -- Politics and government -- 2002
• Minorities -- Government policy -- China
• Minorities -- Social conditions -- China
• Multiculturalism -- China

Language

eng

Summary

China is growing in importance to the economies and governments of the world, and it has been run by men with very different ideas. How China 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.

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UK-WkNB

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Summary expansion

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