Essays about: "Yuanmingyuan"

Found 1 essay containing the word Yuanmingyuan.

  1. 1. Cultural Genocide

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Axel Edling; [2016]
    Keywords : Cultural genocide; genocide; Yuanmingyuan; Buddha statues of Bamiyan; Canadian Residential Schools; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis creates an ideal type model for the concept of cultural genocide and uses this model to analyze the relevance of the concept to the field of peace- and conflict studies. It does so through analysis of three cases, the destruction of Yuanmingyuan during the British-French North Shina Campaign of 1860, the destruction of the Buddha statues of Bamiyan by the Taliban in 2001 and the Canadian Residential School system of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as through comparison to the concept of genocide. READ MORE