Cultural Security in Contemporary China and Mongolia

Cultural Security in Contemporary China and Mongolia applies the term "cultural security" not exclusively to state- or institution-implemented processes, but also considers the indigenous, bottom-up, and inside-out mechanisms of establishing and maintaining communal cultural security of an ethnic group. Markers of cultural identity differ according to an inside and outside perspective and can be re-defined according to inner or outer circumstances. Importance of these markers increases when a community feels endangered in their cultural existence, or diminishes when perceived cultural identity is not questioned. The dynamics shaping cultural security are illustrated in examples of ethnic communities in the People's Republic of China and in Mongolia.

Jarmila Ptácková is Research Fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on Chinese development policy and subsequent social and economic changes in China's Tibetan areas, on China's ethnic policy, and on the role of Tibetans in PRC's cultural and economic diplomacy towards Nepal. Ondrej Klimes is Research Fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His expertise is in modern and contemporary Xinjiang and China, with a focus on China's ethnic policy, political system, ideology and propaganda, and on the Uyghur national movement.

1. The Cultural Security of Ethnic Groups in Contemporary China and Mongolia, 2. Cultural Security in the People's Republic of China: Between Party-State Invocation/Formalization and Academic Theorization, 3. Taking Sides: Differences in How the People's Republic of China Securitizes Uyghur and Hui Muslims, 4. Muslims with Chinese Characteristics: Changing the Image of Ningxia after 2017, 5. Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Heroes in Modern Uyghur Literature, 6. Language Ideologies and Cultural Security: The Status and Meanings of the Uyghur Language, 7. Local Cultural Inclusion in the Context of Partnership Assistance to Tibet: A Case Study on Klu-Nang Township's Tourism Development Project, 8. Adaptation of the Offering to the Mountain Deity among the Qiang in Northwest Sichuan: Cultural Security on Multiple Levels, 9. Against Flattening of Ridges and Ravines: (Dis)locating Cultural Security Through Writing with the Yi of Southwest China, 10. Hong Kong and Scalable Cultural Security, 11. Cultural Survival and National Identity in Contemporary Mongolia, List of Authors, Index