Urumqi – Guantanamo – Palau: Global Paths of China’s Uyghurs
Dru C. Gladney, President of the Pacific Basin Institute and Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College, a research foundation widely recognized for its work enhancing understanding among the nations of the Pacific Rim, will delineate “China’s Xinjiang Problem” for the Seminar.
A frequent commentator on CNN and other news media, Gladney has authored and edited numerous books: Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Subaltern Subjects (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Others are: Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People’s Republic (2nd edition 1996); Ethnic Identity in China: The Making of a Muslim Minority Nationality (1998); Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, China, Korea, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the U.