Ethnicity and economic development in Xinjiang

Inner Asia

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 137-154

  Dreyer, June Teufel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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EID: 0347621442     PISSN: 14648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/146481700793647823     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Beijing, Xinhua (hereafter, XH) English, 12 March 1998.
2. Some of these appear to have moved back, having left in 1979 at which time Beijing expected the USSR to retaliate in Xinjiang for the Chinese incursion into Vietnam. Others are new arrivals. The author was unable to ascertain how many people are in each category.
3. Xinjiang ribao (Ürümqi; hereafter cited as XJRB), 19 September 1998, p. 1.
4. XJRB 26 January 1999, p.1.
5. Mark O'Neill, 'Zhu Sees Red as Provinces Lie over GDP', Business Post/ South China Morning Post, 15 February 1999.
6. Lung Hua, 'High Levels of Central Authority Concerned at the Splittist Activities of Xinjiang', Hong Kong, Hsin Pao (Hong Kong Economic Journal), 15 July 1998, p. 9, in United States Technical Information Service, Foreign Broadcast Information Service: China (hereafter cited as FBIS-CHI), no. 196, via internet.
7. Renmin ribao, 6 January 1999, p. 3.
8. Willy Wo-Lap Lam, 'Tibet Trip to Pacify Activists Suggested', SCMP, 12 February 1999.
9. The author has argued elsewhere that a crucial factor in this upswing was the reinstatement to his old position of Wang Enmao. Wang, who had been the XUAR's first party secretary before his disgrace at the time of the Cultural Revolution, was criticised by his radical rivals for having pandered to local inlerests. In essence, Wang reinstituted the policies for which he had been cashiered. See June Teufel Dreyer, 'The Xinjiang Autonomous Region at Thirty: A Report Card', Asian Survey, Vol. 26, No. 7 (July 1986), pp. 721-44.
10. Nicholas Kristof, 'In China, Too, Centrifugal Forces Are Growing Stronger', New York Times, 26 August 1990, Sec. IV, p. 2.
11. 'Xinjiang News', Ürümqi Television, 24 August 1992, in FBIS-CHI, 27 August 1992, pp. 42-3.
12. Kyodo (Tokyo, English), 18 September 1992, in FBIS-CHI, 22 September 1992, p. 9.
13. XH (Chinese) 3 July 1992, in FBIS-CHl, 6 July 1992, pp. 33-4.
14. XH (English), 23 June 1992.
15. See James Seymour's contribution to this issue.
16. (No author) 'Xinjiang Adopts New Policies For Foreign Trade', China Daily (Beijing), 13 August 1992, p. 2.
17. Karin Malmström, 'Traveller's Tales', Far Eastern Economic Review, 10 December 1992, p. 30.
18. XH (Chinese), 21 December 1992, in FBIS-CHI, 31 December 1992, pp. 57-8.
19. XH (English), 4 January 1993, in FBIS-CHI, 4 January 1993, p. 74.
20. XJRB 20 January 1993, p. 1.
21. XJBR 20 January 1993, p. 3.
22. XJRB 23 October 1992, p. 4.
23. XJRB 12 September 1992, p. 2.
24. XJRB 27 October 1992, p. 1.
25. 'Xinjiang News', Ürümqi Television, 15 December 1992, in FBIS-CHI, 21 December 1992, p. 58.
26. XJRB 18 April 1993, p. 2.
27. XJRB 17 March 1993, p. 1.
28. XJRB 12 February 1993, p. 1.
29. (No author), 'Uygur Tycoon Refused Passport For Hong Kong Trip', Hong Kong Standard, 23 June 1997. Rebiya had her passport confiscated when she applied to visit Hong Kong to do business at the time of its reversion to the PRC. According to press reports, Rebiya was suspected of complicity in the separatist movement; her husband had recently been granted political asylum in the United States.
30. XJRB 27 April 1993, p. 1.
31. XJRB 11 May 1993, p. 1.
32. Author's interview, Hong Kong, 2 July 1978. The particular policy source, a former county-level official in Xinjiang, was describing involved the treatment of Overseas Chinese. He used it to illustrate his general point that cadres regularly evaded central government orders in favour of 'native policies'.
33. See, e.g., Wen Hui Pao (Hong Kong), 6 January 1982, in FBIS-CHI, 20 January 1982, p. W 1; Xinjiang Radio Station, 2 March 1985, in FBIS-CHI, 4 march 1985, p. T1; Xinjiang Radio Station, 8 March 1985, in FBIS-CHI, 12 March 1985, p. T2.
34. Far Eastern Economic Review, 20 May 1993, p. 9.
35. Xinjiang Radio Station, 14 September 1993, in FBIS-CHI, 17 September 1993, pp. 48-9.
36. XJRB 3 January 1994, p. 2.
37. XJRB 4 March 1994, pp. 1, 2; XJRB 7 March 1994, p. 2.
38. XJRB 25 February 1995, pp. 2,3.
39. XH (Chinese) 3 January 1996, in FBIS-CHI, 23 January 1996, p. 71.
40. XH (Chinese) 10 June 1995, in FBIS-CHI, 28 July 1995, pp. 53-4.
41. XJRB 27 April 1995, p. 1.
42. XJRB 27 January 1986, p. 2.
43. XH (English) 12 May 1995.
44. Eduardo Lachica, 'World Bank Report Rebuts Criticism of Chinese Projects', Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, 25 December 19995, p. 7.
45. XH (English), 27 December 1995. This is an exception to the general rule that good news about Xinjiang appears in English-language sources and less good news in Chinese sources.
46. XH (English) 16 August 1995.
47. (No author), 'Nuclear Technology Plan to Irrigate Desert Site', South China Morning Post. 1 December 1997.
48. XH (English) 21 December 1995.
49. XJRB 26 September 1995.
50. to stabilise Xinjiang. Even during the period of overt Sino-Soviet friendship in the early 1950s, Beijing (correctly) suspected the USSR of having designs on the area. Many of Xinjiang's minorities looked to the Soviet Union for help against Beijing. The corps's motto was 'a rifle on one shoulder, a shovel on the other.' By the 1980s, with improved Sino-Soviet relations and Deng's introduction of the profit motive into the Chinese economy, P&CC members, were increasingly concerned with the shovel and decreasingly interested in the rifle.
51. Ivan Tang, 'Paramilitary Group Wins Special Status', South China Morning Post, 17 April 1997.
52. Slightly different versions of the 1996 government work report appear in XJRB 1 February 1997, pp. 2-3 and XJRB 14 March 1997, p. 2.
53. See footnote 19 above.
54. XJRB 8 October 1996, p. 5.
55. XJRB 18 October 1997, p. 1.