This volume investigates the mass detention of Uyghurs in China, exploring the regimes of surveillance to which they are subjected both inside and outside the detention centres of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It offers new insights into the future of the CCP’s domestic governance strategies and troubling international behaviour.

1 Framing the Xinjiang emergency: colonialism and settler colonialism as pathways to cultural genocide?– Michael ClarkePart I: Context2 Echoes from the past: repression in the Uyghur region now and then – Sandrine Catris3 The Kashgar Dangerous House Reform Program: social engineering, ‘a rebirth of the nation’ and a significant building block in China’s creeping genocide – Anna Hayes 4 Settler colonialism in the name of counterterrorism: of ‘savages’ and ‘terrorists’ – Sean R. RobertsPart II: Discourses and practices of repression5 Pathology, inducement and mass incarcerations of Xinjiang’s ‘targeted population’ – Timothy A. Grose and James Leibold6 Two-faced: Turkic Muslim camp workers, subjection and active witnessing – Darren Byler7Corrective ‘re-education’ as (cultural) genocide: a content analysis of the Uyghur primary school textbook Til-Ädäbiyat (2018, rev. 1st ed) – Dilmurat Mahmut and Joanne Smith Finley8 Predatory biopolitics: organ harvesting and other means of monetizing Uyghur ‘surplus’ – Matthew P. Robertson Part III: Domestic and international implications9 ‘Round the clock, three dimensional control’: the evolution and implications of the ‘Xinjiang mode’ of counterterrorism – Michael Clarke10 The effect of Xinjiang’s virtual lockdown on the Uyghur diaspora – Ablimit Baki Elterish11 ‘Window of opportunity’: the Xinjiang emergency in China’s ‘new type of international relations’ – David TobinIndex

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the site of the largest mass repression of an ethnic and/or religious minority in the world today. Researchers estimate that since 2016 one million people have been detained there without trial.Inside the detention centres individuals are exposed to deeply invasive forms of surveillance and psychological stress, while outside more than ten million Turkic Muslims are subjected to a network of hi-tech surveillance systems, checkpoints and interpersonal monitoring. Existing reportage and commentary on the crisis tend to address these issues in isolation, but this ground-breaking volume brings them together, exploring the interconnections between the core strands of the Xinjiang emergency in order to generate a more accurate understanding of its significance for the future of China. Divided into three parts, the book provides detailed historical context, exposes how repression is enacted and framed by the Chinese government and investigates the broader effects in China and beyond.Written by an international group of scholars with a wide range of expertise, The Xinjiang emergency is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this disturbing development, which has been described as an act of ‘cultural genocide’.