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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

Volume 20 Issue 3 (June 2019)

Today the Uyghur Human Rights Project updated its count of confirmed detentions/forced disappearances of ethnic-minority intellectuals (artists, authors, academics etc.), a key part of Chinese authorities' forced-assimilation campaign targeting the ethnic minorities of Xinjiang, western China, including with mass internments in concentration camps, mass surveillance, blanket criminalization of everyday religious practices, forced marriages, and more.

Dear colleagues, 

Apologies for this intrusion by an interloper (my own field is modern Europe, with a focus on post-1945 Germany)!

I am currently finishing up a book on German reactions to genocides that took place in other countries after 1945, and one country I focus on is Cambodia. In the course of my research, I have repeatedly come across, in German press coverage and elsewhere, the trope "Asian smile" in reference to the Cambodians. The subtext seems to be that luking beneath the ubiquitous "Asian smile" is a much darker side...

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