Jarmila Ptácková is Research Fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on Chinese development policy and subsequent social and economic changes in China’s Tibetan areas, on China’s ethnic policy, and on the role of Tibetans in PRC’s cultural and economic diplomacy towards Nepal. Ondrej Klimes is Research Fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His expertise is in modern and contemporary Xinjiang and China, with a focus on China's ethnic policy, political system, ideology and propaganda, and on the Uyghur national movement.

• 1. The Cultural Security of Ethnic Groups in Contemporary China and Mongolia - Jarmila Ptáková and Ondrej Klimes 2. Cultural Security in the People’s Republic of China: Between Party-State Invocation/Formalization and Academic Theorization - Mohammed Alsudairi 3. Taking Sides: Differences in How the People’s Republic of China Securitizes Uyghur and Hui Muslims - Hacer Z. Gonul and Julius M. Rogenhofer 4. Muslims with Chinese Characteristics: Changing the Image of Ningxia after 2017 - Jarmila Ptá.ková 5. Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Heroes in Modern Uyghur Literature - Michal Zelcer–Lavid 6. Language Ideologies and Cultural Security: The Status and Meanings of the Uyghur Language - Giulia Cabras 7. Local Cultural Inclusion in the Context of Partnership Assistance to Tibet: A Case Study on Klu-Nang Township’s Tourism Development Project - Yang Minghong and Zeng Benxiang 8. Adaptation of the Offering to the Mountain Deity among the Qiang in Northwest Sichuan: Cultural Security on Multiple Levels - Bian Simei 9. Against Flattening of Ridges and Ravines: (Dis)locating Cultural Security Through Writing with the Yi of Southwest China - Jan Karlach 10. Hong Kong and Scalable Cultural Security - Gabriel Thorne 11. Cultural Survival and National Identity in Contemporary Mongolia - Mei-hua Lan List of Authors Index