Forced assimilation is now the law.

Executive Summary: Diversity remains part of the show in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), with colorfully dressed minority delegates once again on display at the annual National People’s Congress...

On a clear October morning in 2025, two massive cranes rolled up to a middle school in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Workers prised off the large Chinese and Mongolian signs running along the ...

Since 2016, China has been building or refurbishing hundreds of so-called xiaokang (well-off) villages along its borderlands, complete with new infrastructure and an increased security presence. Some ...

The education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter

Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

From the National Bureau of Asian Research, an Asia Insight miniseries exploring the geostrategic significance of China’s borderlands, led by Nadège Rolland, Distinguished Fellow for China Studies at ...

Developing countries to pay a record $22bn this year, mostly linked to loans from China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

The Chinese Communist Party is attempting to rename the Tibetan people’s homeland, part of a wider effort to eradicate Tibet’s cultural identity. For Tibet, it’s more than just a name.

More Than a Category: Han Supremacism on the Chinese Internet - Volume 203

As the Chinese Communist Party has intensified its policy of assimilation for cultural and ethnic minority groups in recent decades, language has been a key part of that effort. Standard Tibetan is re...

In recent decades, market reforms, inter-regional mobility, and urbanization have shaped Muslim groups’ social practices, simultaneously encouraging the development of Islamic places (and reinforci...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) engages in systematic efforts to curtail historical inquiry into subjects deemed “sensitive,” such as the Tiananmen Massacre; control narratives regarding the history...

YouTube video by Manchester China Institute