From "Lamb Kebabs" to "Shared Joy": Cultural Appropriation, Ignorance and the Constrained Connectivity within the "One Belt, One Road" Initiative.

This article primarily pays attention to Han Chinese appropriations of Uyghur culture from the post-Mao era. A unique case is comedian Chen Peisi's role of Uyghur lamb kebab peddler in a TV sketch in 1986. The root of the cultural appropriation is to re-essentialize Uyghur culture to quell the deman...

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Published in:	Journal of Contemporary China Vol. 29; no. 121; pp. 1 - 17
Main Author:	Chen, Yangbin
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan2020
Subjects:	Mao Chang, fl. 145 B.C. Cultural relations Capitalism Belt & Road Initiative Cultural appropriation Uyghur (Turkic people)
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost