ARTICLE: Clashes in China Shed Light on Ethnic Divide, By EDWARD WONG, New York Times, July 7, 2009

Good piece by Wong on Uigher unhappiness over Chinese economic and cultural policies.

Reminds me of crowding out phenomenon with Hispanics and Native Americans in U.S. West in late 19th C. Preferences favor the inflowing population from the more advanced East.

That local resentment never quite disappears ...