{"id":358,"date":"2009-05-11T00:06:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T07:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/?p=358"},"modified":"2009-05-11T00:06:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T07:06:44","slug":"autonomous-hui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2009\/05\/11\/autonomous-hui\/","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous Hui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In form, if not in fact, the structure of Chinese sub-provincial units goes as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Region (province)\n<ul>\n<li>Prefecture\n<ul>\n<li>County (and\/or district)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There may be one or many counties\/districts in a prefecture and one or many prefectures in a region.\u00a0 China also has the idea, if not in fact, of autonomous regions, prefectures, and counties.\u00a0 The general naming structure is: &lt;placename&gt; &lt;ethnicity&gt; &lt;&#8220;autonomous&#8221;&gt; &lt;unit&gt;, where unit could be region, prefecture, or county\/district.\u00a0 So, for example, you have, officially, the &#8220;Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.&#8221;\u00a0 But the autonomous designation is, as it were, autonomous, so you end up with situations like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region\n<ul>\n<li>Bayin&#8217;gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture\n<ul>\n<li>Yanqui Hui Autonomous County<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that&#8217;s a nominally autonomous region of Hui (Han Chinese Muslims) within a Mongol autonomous prefecture within a Uyghur autonomous region, none of which are, of course, in the slightest bit autonomous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In form, if not in fact, the structure of Chinese sub-provincial units goes as follows: Region (province) Prefecture County (and\/or district) There may be one or many counties\/districts in a prefecture and one or many prefectures in a region.\u00a0 China &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2009\/05\/11\/autonomous-hui\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1421,96,646],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-asia","category-politics","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-5M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}