Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This essay examines the expansion of the Tibet-Aid Project in Chinese President Xi Jinping's 'New Era' of Han-centric nationalism and explores how the project facilitates Han settler colonialism in the Tibetan Autonomous Region.It argues that the Chinese Communist Party views the Tibetan Plateau as a sort of 'final frontier', where the heroic 'Han man's burden' of bringing civilisation and progress into this far corner of the People's Republic of China remains incomplete but well under way.Tibet.
Source: Made in China Journal
Author: James Leibold
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4410109093