Urbanising Western China: Nation-building on the Sino-Tibetan frontier

该项目旨在探索城市化作为中国共产党在西藏政策的关键部分，以及它为西藏人的身份，语言和文化提供的新机会。一个国际化的多学科团队将结合联合收割机对政府主要文本的分析、对政府官员和少数民族精英的采访，以及对城市藏人日常生活的观察。该项目将产生对中国治理多样性挑战的新理解，并将通过探索我们地区主导力量不断变化的社会结构的一个基本方面而使澳大利亚受益。

This project aims to explore urbanisation as a key part of the Chinese Communist Party's policies in Tibet and the novel opportunities it affords for Tibetan identity, language, and culture. An international, multidisciplinary team will combine analysis of key government texts, interviews with government officials and ethnic minority elites, as well as observations of daily life amongst urban Tibetans. The project will produce new understandings of the challenges of governing diversity in China, and will benefit Australia by exploring a fundamental aspect of the changing social fabric of our region’s dominant power.