Abstract
<jats:p>For several years now, Xinjiang has been the subject of a global debate focusing on ethnicity and human rights issues. Accusations of genocide have been made. This volume aims to broaden the view of Xinjiang from an academic perspective. It includes historical and geopolitical background information as well as recent findings. In doing so, the entire Xinjiang discourse in the Western media cannot be viewed in isolation from general China policy and the new ‘system rivalry’ between ‘the West’ and ‘the autocracies’. Georg Gesk holds the professorship for Chinese law at the University of Osnabrück. Thomas Heberer is Senior Professor of Chinese Politics and Society at the University of Essen-Duisburg. Norman Paech is Professor Emeritus of Public Law at the University of Hamburg. Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer has been teaching in East Asian Studies in Munich and Göttingen, was Director of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, and Senior Professor at the China Centre Tübingen (CCT).</jats:p>