Is this folklorization related to Chinese Orientalism?
Fuller and Lipman lament the ââDisneylandizationâ of Islam and Uyghur culture in China,â which they say âhas 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.â^[The ETIM; Chinaâs Islamic Militants and the Global Terrorist Threat, Fuller and Lipman, âIslam in Xinjiang,â 323.]