Inner AsiaPub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02501007
Yonten Nyima
{"title":"‘When the Land Cannot Support the People Any More’","authors":"Yonten Nyima","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02501007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02501007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article examines the use of a popular Chinese formulation, yifang shuitu yanghuo buliao yifangren (‘the soil and water of a place cannot support the local people’), in China’s poverty-alleviation resettlement by focusing on the case of the Tibet Autonomous Region. The official narrative that the formulation points to is that the native land of Tibetans living in ‘harsh’ environments can no longer support them and cannot enable them to escape from ‘poverty’; they thus need to be resettled. The article shows that, while the degree to which the formulation holds true is debatable even from a government perspective, local officials find the authority embedded in the formulation, originating as it has from the central government, useful as a means of persuasion in getting Tibetans to agree to resettle and thus facilitating policy implementation on the ground. This finding echoes earlier research on the usefulness of political language for authorities in China at different levels of the administration.","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48499136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inner AsiaPub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02501010
Dankhaiaa Khovalyg
{"title":"On ‘New Tuva’ Anti-war Movement","authors":"Dankhaiaa Khovalyg","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02501010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02501010","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000‘New Tuva’ is a Tuvan anti-war movement that was created in the spring, 2022, after the Russian government started the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The movement consists of a decentralised group of activists and volunteers of Tuvan origin with an anti-war position and shared aim to prevent support of the war against Ukraine from Tuva in all forms of its manifestation. Their main activities include providing assistance to military personnel and those who might be mobilised in refusing to participate in the war and public awareness-building regarding the real situation in Ukraine, Tuva and statistics over Tuvans killed in the war etc.\u0000This study focuses on the context of the Tuvan republic, the activities of ‘New Tuva’, its influence on the Tuvan society within the region and what main obstacles and difficulties the movement faces in its work.","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45227886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inner AsiaPub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02501018
M. Kobi
{"title":"The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Machine, written by Andrew Grant","authors":"M. Kobi","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02501018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02501018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":"40 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41300058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inner AsiaPub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02501009
A. Zhanaev, Kristina Jonutytė
{"title":"Special Section: The Voices of Russia’s Minorities on the Invasion of Ukraine","authors":"A. Zhanaev, Kristina Jonutytė","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02501009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02501009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47821484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inner AsiaPub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02501014
Lauren Bonilla
{"title":"Continent In Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System, written by Jerry Zee","authors":"Lauren Bonilla","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02501014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02501014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44478481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inner AsiaPub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02501020
Björn Reichhardt
{"title":"Embracing Landscape: Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia, written by Selcen Küçüküstel","authors":"Björn Reichhardt","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02501020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02501020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49321886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inner AsiaPub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02501011
Mariya Vyushkova, Evgeny Sherkhonov
{"title":"Russia’s Ethnic Minority Casualties of the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine","authors":"Mariya Vyushkova, Evgeny Sherkhonov","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02501011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02501011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The Free Buryatia Foundation is Russia’s first ethnic anti-war advocacy group founded in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. One of the major parts of our work is analysis of open-source data on the participation of Russia’s ethnic minorites (including Buryats) in the war in Ukraine. In this paper, we discuss ethnic disproportions in the confirmed Russian-side casualties of the war in Ukraine where such ethnicities as Buryats, Kazakhs, and Tuvans are clearly over-represented.","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48036895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inner AsiaPub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02501004
Gegentuul Baioud
{"title":"From Diversity to Homogeneity","authors":"Gegentuul Baioud","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02501004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02501004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article explores the shifting connotations of two key terms in propaganda texts on bilingual education policy in Inner Mongolia. The two terms are dumdadu-yin ündüsten (Ch.: Zhonghua minzu, Chinese nation) and ulus-un neidem hereglehü üge hel (Ch.: guojia tongyong yuyan, national common language). I examine how the meanings of these key terms have begun to shift as China strives to shed its multinational character and build a linguistically homogenous Chinese nation-state. The new prominence given to the term dumdadu-yin ündüsten (Chinese nation) and the gradual substitution of the terms neitelig hel (Ch.: putonghua) and khitad hel (Han language) with the term ulus-un neidem hereglehü üge hel (national common language) in propaganda texts in Inner Mongolia reflect and shape China’s changing policies on its borderlands. In this brief exploratory article, I underline how the Mongolian terms referring to the Chinese nation and national common language undergo shifts in their meanings as what sits at the very core of these terms – the Han – irrepressibly exposes itself and subsumes other meaning potentials.","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46835817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inner AsiaPub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02501019
Andrei Marin
{"title":"Media Culture in Nomadic Communities, written by Allison H. Hahn","authors":"Andrei Marin","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02501019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02501019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45198685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}