Locally modern, globally Uyghur: geography, identity and consumer culture in contemporary Xinjiang
✍ Scribed by Erkin, Adila
- Book ID
- 126898515
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Group
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 123 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0263-4937
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✦ Synopsis
Much scholarship and commentary has raised concerns about the fate of traditional Uyghur culture in the context of development and globalization in the twenty-first century, some even predicting its disappearance through assimilation to mainstream majority Han culture. However, by exploring the modern Uyghur culture of consumption -in foodstuffs, entertainment and real estate -this paper shows an opposite phenomenon: the transformation of the traditional Uyghur culture to a distinct cultural, religious and linguistic popular contemporary Uyghur culture that thrives and expands with the aid of globalization and development.