Folklorization of Uyghurs
Is this folklorization related to Chinese Orientalism?
Fuller and Lipman lament the “‘Disneylandization’ of Islam and Uyghur culture in China,” which they say “has been emasculated, folklorized, prettified, Hanified, and cast into the nationwide museum of safely packaged ethnicity that serves up exoticism and charm to tourists in China but precludes any hint of opposition in the past or present.”^[ The ETIM; China’s Islamic Militants and the Global Terrorist Threat, Fuller and Lipman, “Islam in Xinjiang,” 323.]