Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Questions, purposes, and significance
  • 1.2. Methodology
  • 1.3. Outline of chapters
  • Notes
  • 2. The rise of the World Uyghur Congress
  • 2.1. Birth of the WUC
  • 2.2. The operation of the WUC
  • 2.3. The world of competition for the WUC
  • 2.4. External patrons
  • 2.5. To act as if it were the real umbrella organization
  • 2.6. The legitimacy question
  • 2.7. Summary
  • Notes
  • 3. International networks
  • 3.1. Method and data
  • 3.2. Patterns
  • 3.3. Centrality
  • 3.4. Regional networks
  • 3.5. Summary
  • Notes
  • 4. Online networks
  • 4.1. Method and data
  • 4.2. Macro similarities and differences
  • 4.3. Micro similarities and differences
  • 4.4. Summary
  • Notes
  • 5.A minor but rising influence in America
  • 5.1. The rise of the Uyghur lobby in America
  • 5.2. The campaign to rescue Rebiya Kadeer
  • 5.3. Congressional support
  • 5.4. Further actions
  • 5.5. Campaigns to save prisoners
  • 5.6. Summary
  • Notes.
  • Contents note continued: 6. Struggling for attention in Germany
  • 6.1. Patterns
  • 6.2. Strategies and impacts
  • 6.3. Summary
  • Notes
  • 7. Uyghur networks in Japan
  • 7.1. Method and data
  • 7.2. Patterns
  • 7.3. Strategies and impacts
  • 7.4. Summary
  • Notes
  • 8. China's competing discourses and strategies
  • 8.1. China's framing of the Uyghur issue
  • 8.2. China's strategies
  • 8.3. Summary
  • Notes
  • 9. Conclusions
  • 9.1. The niche perspective of the Uyghur lobby
  • 9.2. Contributions to social sciences studies and limits
  • Notes.