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This project aims to complete an academic book, “The Uyghur Lobby”, which I have been working since 2009. In essence, I will discuss the networks, strategies, and impacts of the Uyghur lobby in various countries around the world.

Sponsor: National Science Council, Taiwan (NSC100-2410-H-001-114)

Uyghur communities only started to mobilize and influence Japanese politics in recent years. Currently, there is no single academic paper that is dedicated to Uyghur activism in Japan. This research will fill the lacuna.

Sponsor: The Sumitomo Foundation, Japan

This research explores whether recent developments in quantitative content analysis can assist measuring interest articulations in Chinese texts.

Sponsor: National Science Council, Taiwan (NSC98-2917-I-564-147)

This research explores the crucial roles of the Uyghur diaspora and transnational actors in fashioning and sustaining a collective Uyghur aspiration to advance their brethern's right in China and to further forge an East Turkestan state. These are desires that will admittedly be difficult to achieve from within their perceived homeland of Xinjiang in China. I use social network analysis to map out the Uyghurs' international networks.

Sponsor: The Consortium of Non-Traditional Security Studies in Asia, Singapore

The European Survey of Ethnopolitical Groups (ESEPG) provides aggregate data for analyzing the domestic and international engagement of 57 European Ethnopolitical Groups in 31 European countries. It also allows researchers to explore the factors that could have prompted these groups' international presence.

Sponsor: Baden-Württemberg State, Germany