Amane TANAKA

Project Researcher of RCAST, University of Tokyo

Project Researcher

Amane TANAKA is a Project Researcher at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), the University of Tokyo.

His research interests include Contemporary Chinese Politics and China-Central Asia relations. He is a co-editor of Changing Politics and Social Groups in China: The Challenges of Transition (2013, in Japanese) and Chinese Muslims Area Studies (2012, in Japanese). In addition, he has published articles on China-Central Asia relations through the lens of the security-development nexus, China’s state-building processes under the CCP rule, and regional autonomy in Xinjiang in the 1950s.

Activities

Working Group

Working Group 1 on China and the Challenge of Authoritarian Regimes Working Group 2 on Middle Eastern and Islamic Alternatives Forum for Researches on the Middle East Region (INPEX Solutions, LTD.) "Indigenous Logic of the Regions of Eurasia" Working Group "Emerging Security Landscape in Greater Central Asia" Working Group

Single Author

Papers

Tanaka, Amane and Maria Tanaka. “China’s Security Engagement with Greater Central Asia (GCA): The Case of Afghanistan.” Roles Review, no. 2 (2022): 21-38.

Kolodziejczyk-Tanaka, Aleksandra Maria and Amane Tanaka. “The Structure and Content of China’s Counterterrorism Policy: The Case of Uyghur Islamist Terrorism.” In Proceedings: International Conference on Xinjiang in the Context of Central Eurasian Transformations, 363-397. Tokyo: The University of Tokyo, 2015.

Social Publications

Tanaka, Amane. “China – Central Asia Relations through the Lens of the Security – Development Nexus.” The 8th World Forum on China Studies, Shanghai International Convention Center, Shanghai, September 11, 2019.

Kolodziejczyk-Tanaka Aleksandra Maria, and Amane Tanaka. "The Structure and Content of China’s Counterterrorism Policy: The Case of Uyghur Islamist Terrorism" International Conference on “Xinjiang in the context of Central Eurasian transformations”, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, December 19,2015.

Tanaka, Amane. "Minority and the State: the Case of Uyghur Nationalism in China "China after Xi Jinping: the View from Japan and Australia Symposium, Australian National University, Canberra, September 12, 2014.

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