Talk:Wang Lixiong

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Xinjiang

While Wang Lixiong's Tibet writings fall broadly into the intellectual circlejerk of regurgitated Western hegemonic views sexily repackaged as "Chinese dissent" for Western sinologues, his views on Xinjiang are much more thoughtful and nuanced in a way that this article does not express.

The article by Wang, "新疆独立是新疆继续分裂的开始", considers the fate of the non-Uygur majority in Xinjiang, should that region becomes independent as a "Uygurstan". He forecasts that the Kazaks in Yili, the Mongols of Bazhou, the Hui of Changji - all of whom have a state-sanctioned ethnoterritorial inheritance - and of course the well-armed Han in Shehezi, Dihua, etc. would fight their Uygur oppressors to the teeth.

With state intervention and volunteer kinship militae pouring in from Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and China, he continues, the separatists only have a chance in Kashi, Hetian, and Gumo. Whether in terms of economic resources (oil and cotton), materiel, or geostrategic advantage, these Uygur strongholds are not very significant. His conclusion, of course, is that independence is not a good idea. This article should make some indication of this unconventional "dissent", perhaps in reference to English-language reviews of "我的西域; 你的东土", which touch on the same ideas. Shrigley (talk) 20:05, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]