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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Xinjiang"”.
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Seeing: The Multiple Narratives of Northern Xinjiang
… land, mobility, and representation in Northern Xinjiang through the lived experiences and spatial practices of Kazakh pastoral communities. Beginning from a position of uncertainty and misalignment, the research questions how dominant narratives of modernization and settlement shape the …
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The Presentation and Adaptation of Xinjiang Musical Elements in Chinese Piano Composition: an Analysis of Three Xinjiang Style Piano Works
… the traditional music of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang is a crucial element that cannot be overlooked. Xinjiang is a province located in the northwest of China. Due to its unique geographical location and historical factors, Xinjiang's ethnic music exhibits distinct characteristics that are …
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Examining Narratives of Place: Representations of Xinjiang in Tourism and Geography Education
This thesis examines how Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, located in northwest China, is represented in tourism and geographic education literature. The research demonstrates the limited and distorted place narratives of Xinjiang that are promoted by the government-backed tourist enterprise in …
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Examining Narratives of Place: Representations of Xinjiang in Tourism and Geography Education
This thesis examines how Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, located in northwest China, is represented in tourism and geographic education literature. The research demonstrates the limited and distorted place narratives of Xinjiang that are promoted by the government-backed tourist enterprise in …
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Writing a Modern Land: Discourses of Environmental Modernity in Twentieth-century Xinjiang
This dissertation argues that Xinjiang’s human history cannot be fully understood apart from its non-human history. It explores a ‘problematic of environmental modernity’ in the context of Xinjiang, and, through discourse analysis of Chinese and Uyghur-language state newspapers and other elements …
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Trace Metal Concentrations across Trophic Levels in Cotton Fields of Xinjiang Province, China
<p>Trace metals become concentrated in urban and peri-urban soils with the use of agricultural practices and industrial emissions. Fertilizers, liming, sewage sludge, and irrigation water contain metals which accumulate in agricultural fields and pose a risk to humans and wildlife. Coal plants and …
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An Investigation of Teachers’ Perceptions of Culture Teaching in Secondary Schools in Xinjiang, China
English Language education in China has gone through several stages of development in the past 30 years. The early method of language learning was centred on grammar acquisition but this has since moved to the current approach of communicative competence development. Although the Official Document …
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Governing Imperial Borders: Insights from the Study of the Implementation of Law in Qing Xinjiang
… that the Qing Empire employed to govern Xinjiang from 1759, when this area was annexed into the empire, to 1911, when the Qing dynasty collapsed. Focusing on the changes in the applicability of the two legal systems--Qing state law and indigenous Islamic law--in the criminal and the civil …
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People and place in the new frontier: an examination of Han and Uyghur ethnic identities
… ethnic identities are constructed in urban Xinjiang, how they have evolved over time and how both identities gain their meaning largely from a process of interaction with the ‘other’. It shows that the boundaries that exist between Uyghur and Han hugely influence the identity content of …
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The Impact of Global English in Xinjiang, China: Linguistic Capital and Identity Negotiation among the Ethnic Minority and Han Chinese Students
… of college-age English language learners in Xinjiang at the historical juncture of China’s capitalist development. In Xinjiang the international lingua franca English, the national official language Mandarin Chinese, and major Turkic languages such as Uyghur and Kazakh interact and compete …
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Provincial government and regional development
This research uses a case study of Xinjiang to challenge China's reform by addressing the problems rooted in its partiality and regionalisation. The reform started in the field of political administration and toleration of decentralisation and marketisation in the economic sphere has generated …
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She Swims in Silence: Spatial Narrative, Women's labor in Contemporary Art
… the collective lives of Chinese women sent to Xinjiang in state-led migration after 1949 and the erasure of their gendered narratives. Drawing on a unique family history and archival evidence, the thesis reveals how the personal identities of these female “Aid to Xinjiang” participants were …
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Qiuci fantasy for full orchestra
… ago in the Kuche region of northwest China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region. The Quici people maintained their own particular instrumental ensemble that featured the konghuo (a type of harp), the pipa (a plucked instrument), and several kinds of drums, including jie drum, qi drum, and jilou drum. …
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EXPLORING THE ARTISTIC CHARACTERISTICS AND PERFORMANCE OF CHINESE PIANO DANCE MUSIC
… Dream of Dunhuang piano suite, and Ding Shande's Xinjiang Dance No.2. The paper explores how the piano conveys emotions in Chinese dance music, emphasizing the importance of incorporating dance rhythms into piano performances. It aims to inspire pianists, promote a unique art form, and encourage …
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MANIFEST DESTINY IN CHINA: A COMPARISON OF THE UNITED STATES AMERICAN INDIAN WARS OF THE 1800S WITH CHINA’S STRIKE HARD CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE UYGHUR MUSLIMS OF XINJIANG PROVINCE
… and the present-day plight of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China. It should be noted that this thesis does not purport to illustrate a vast range of similarities between the two. Rather, very few resemblances actually exist. Among them, geographic expansionism, domestic imperialism, and forced …
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Reproducing the Orient: A Critical Examination of Western Media Representations of China’s Uyghur Policies between 2014 and 2021
… media in news coverage of China’s policies in Xinjiang. Analysis of a sample of articles published by <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>, <em>The</em> <em>Washington Post</em>, and <em>CNN</em> between 2014 and 2021 found that stories citing US state media, Uyghur …
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Repetition and its discontents : space, time and identity in the city of Urumqi
… identity in the city of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China. The work explores the shifting interface between various types of spaces within the city, focusing on three major areas: dominant state space, Han Chinese space and Turkic Muslim …
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