China’s Indigenous Peoples? How Global Environmentalism Unintentionally Smuggled the Notion of Indigeneity into China

This article explores how global environmental organizations unintentionally fostered the notion of indigenous people and rights in a country that officially opposed these concepts. In the 1990s, Beijing declared itself a supporter of indigenous rights elsewhere, but asserted that, unlike the Americ...

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Main Author: Michael J. Hathaway
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-07-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/3/54