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This book demonstrates how China deploys state terror against Uyghur Turkic Muslims in their homeland (Uyghur Region/Xinjiang) and beyond it in the Uyghur diaspora, and to what effect. The study applies theoretical approaches from political science (including its subfield of Critical Terrorism Studies), anthropology and philosophy to illustrate the novel case study of the People’s Republic of China under Xi Jinping since 2012. The authors find that the contemporary Chinese party-state has reinvigorated its past totalitarian practices and currently operates an extensive, ideologically justified system of organs and mechanisms to commit acts of state terror against Uyghurs. These acts comprise arbitrary detention and imprisonment, persecution, torture, gender-based and sexual violence, killings, birth prevention, forced labour, and other deeds considered to be the defining traits of crimes against humanity and genocide in international law. State terror in Xinjiang is enabled by human and automated surveillance and by totalitarian methods of social mobilisation. The Chinese party-state intends this terror to instil permanent fear into the minds of Uyghurs in Xinjiang as well as in the diaspora, through transnational repression. The state (party) thereby aims to enjoy permanent security. This book further illustrates how the CCP’s campaign of terror has successfully forced Uyghurs to change their behaviours within a climate of fear that persists long after the visible (theatrical) symbols of state terrorism have been reduced.
Author(s): Smith Finley J, Klimes O
Publication type: Authored Book
Publication status: Submitted
Year: 2026
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Place Published: Manchester
