“Making the Past Serve the Present”: The Testimonial Tourist Gaze and Infrastructures of Memory in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China
In this article, we explore how tourism in Xinjiang is politically weaponised. Commodifying Uyghur cultural heritage for tourism allows the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to insist it is not committing cultural genocide, but actually “conserving” Uyghur culture. This directly bears on the CCP’s inter...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2023-08-01
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| Series: | Journal of Current Chinese Affairs |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/18681026221121828 |