Roberto Abraham Scaruffi: Useful Exotics: The Fate of China's Minorities

Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Useful Exotics: The Fate of China's Minorities

Disdained by the Chinese majority and harassed by the government, Beijing uses its ethnic minorities to portray itself as a seemingly tolerant and multiethnic nation. Now the identity of China's minorities is threatened by modernization, commerce and pop culture.