I'll repost this since I didn't get any responses on my last post: ''Yesterday I saw a piece that made me question a lot of stuff I read, from critical China scholars, as they call themselves, I don’t know how what is true or false or whatever but the it sounds a lot like boarding schools if it’s all true. Could someone offer more information on this? I’m genuinely curious and not trolling. https://criticalchinascholars.org/interventions/ ''
It wouldn’t surprise me if there were boarding schools in use. It’s a vast region. Centralising education makes some sense, especially given that the widening inequality between Uyghurs and Han is in part due to the reduced ability for the former to engage in the market reforms, due to lack of mandarin language.
I'm mostly curious on the part which says/implies that children are taken away from parents non-consentually, or really anything on it since the vast majority of the information you find when searching is propaganda
I mean education is mandatory and boarding schools seem to be pretty common in China, not only in Xinjiang. Obviously not everyone will be happy about this arrangement and Western media likes to only give a platform to the ones that aren't happy (which I suspect only consists of a small minority).
Not surprisingly, the CGTN take on this is a lot more positive:
https://youtu.be/XRorvkxIDPg
Edit: Regarding the FT article about families being separated due to the re-education camps, I don't doubt there's truth to it since obviously they're not just going to leave the children to fend for themselves and it's not hard to imagine that a decent amount of participants were forced to be there. Obviously this is concerning from a human rights point of view, but IMO as long as the conditions in the schools are fine (which does seem to be the case), I really don't think it's as big of a deal as they're made out to be and I think it's much better than the region being plagued by terrorist attacks every year.
I'll repost this since I didn't get any responses on my last post: ''Yesterday I saw a piece that made me question a lot of stuff I read, from critical China scholars, as they call themselves, I don’t know how what is true or false or whatever but the it sounds a lot like boarding schools if it’s all true. Could someone offer more information on this? I’m genuinely curious and not trolling. https://criticalchinascholars.org/interventions/ ''
What do you want to know specifically?
It wouldn’t surprise me if there were boarding schools in use. It’s a vast region. Centralising education makes some sense, especially given that the widening inequality between Uyghurs and Han is in part due to the reduced ability for the former to engage in the market reforms, due to lack of mandarin language.
What's a market reform?
The continued legacy of Deng’s reform and opening up policies. Basically capitalist wage relations, governed by a communist party.
I'm mostly curious on the part which says/implies that children are taken away from parents non-consentually, or really anything on it since the vast majority of the information you find when searching is propaganda
I mean education is mandatory and boarding schools seem to be pretty common in China, not only in Xinjiang. Obviously not everyone will be happy about this arrangement and Western media likes to only give a platform to the ones that aren't happy (which I suspect only consists of a small minority).
Not surprisingly, the CGTN take on this is a lot more positive:
https://youtu.be/XRorvkxIDPg
Edit: Regarding the FT article about families being separated due to the re-education camps, I don't doubt there's truth to it since obviously they're not just going to leave the children to fend for themselves and it's not hard to imagine that a decent amount of participants were forced to be there. Obviously this is concerning from a human rights point of view, but IMO as long as the conditions in the schools are fine (which does seem to be the case), I really don't think it's as big of a deal as they're made out to be and I think it's much better than the region being plagued by terrorist attacks every year.