Division 13: Politics of Communist and Former Communist Countries

(Paper - Virtual) Administering Assimilationism: The Ethnic Affairs Bureaucracy under Xi Jinping - Aaron Nathan Glasserman

(Paper) Border Logics of Assimilation: Securitization through “Blood Transfusion” - Darren Byler, Simon Fraser University

(Paper) Disappearing Minority Quotas: Tibetan Disenfranchisement in the TAR - James Patrick Leibold, La Trobe University

(Paper) Chinese Communist Party’s Xinjiang Work in Central Asia and Tibet Work in Nepal - Ondrej Klimes, Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Jarmila Ptackova, Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences

(Paper) Writing Ethnicity under Autocracy: Intellectuals and Ethnic Policy under Xi - Sinan Chu, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies

James Patrick Leibold La Trobe University

David Tobin University of Sheffield

David R. Stroup University of Manchester