Chinese Academia Marches West: A Structural Topic Model of China’s Knowledge-Production in Central Asian Studies
Download the report here. Access the database of Chinese scholarship on Central Asia here. As the United States began to…
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Book: Great Wall of Steel: China’s Global Campaign to Suppress the Uyghurs
Read the full monograph here. The People’s Republic of China has engaged in transnational repression in 44 countries since 1997.…
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Beyond Silence: Collaboration Between Arab States and China in the Transnational Repression of Uyghurs
Access the full report here This report, which was produced in collaboration with the Uyghur Human Rights Project, assesses China’s…
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“Your Family Will Suffer”: How China is Hacking, Surveilling, and Intimidating Uyghurs in Liberal Democracies
Download the full report here. Access the dataset of 5,530 instances of Uyghurs being targeted with surveillance, intimidation and harassment…
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“Nets Cast from the Earth to the Sky:” China’s Hunt for Pakistan’s Uyghurs
Read the full report here. “Nets Cast from the Earth to the Sky” explores how China has targeted Uyghurs in…
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Covid-19, Worker Strikes and the Failure to Protect Citizens: An Update on the Central Asian Protest Tracker
Read the report. Get the key takeaways here As the third wave of Covid-19 hit Central Asia with the Delta…
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Dialogue Summary: Japan and South Korea in Central Asia
Read the summary here. In Spring 2021, the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs and the Davis Center of Russian…
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Dialogue Summary: Emerging Forms of Islamic Civil Society in Central Asia
Read the report here. Although levels of religiosity vary, over eighty five percent of Central Asians self-identify as Muslim, with…
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Understanding Disorder in Central Asia
The five countries in Central Asia — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan — all display varying degrees of authoritarian rule. Across the region, local economies are stymied by corruption, resulting in a dissatisfied and increasingly vocal populace (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 18 October 2019). In two of the republics, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, election-related demonstrations have altered the political landscape, but across the board, state directed-force and mob brutality are rife.
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Revolution and Rising Discontent: An Update on the Central Asia Protest Tracker
Download PDF This report is based on the Central Asia Protest Tracker. Download our full dataset. By Natalie Simpson, Raushan…
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