read a bit from the Author's book, still trying to figure out how assertations like "the PRC began a systematic and violent dismantling of Uyghur culture and identity that can be unequivocally described as cultural genocide." are justified What important facet of Uyghur culture faces eradication right now? Their language, clothing, cuisine, and religion are all extremely prominent in everyday life in Xinjiang and even elsewhere. skimming his chapter titled Cultural Genocide, he mostly just lists uyghur violence, state crackdowns, and of course the author's continual suspicion that the Turkestan Islamic Party doesn't exist or is being controlled by China. and policies of incarceration rather than how a cultural genocide is taking place,

http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=C98E5A83074B27525F4910D7FE4B9B06

edit: Found his argument eventually, first in the introduction and then in "Welcome to the Pomegranate" section of chapter 6. Weird take on "Miscegenation" which I was pretty shocked to read. he cites as genocide the demolition of particular graveyards, mosques and holy sites (as reported by Bellingcat using satellite images), new houses which lack traditional Uyghur furniture and architecture, Women entering the work force decide to bring their children to state-run day-cares, an expansion of boarding schools at all levels of education, migrant labor, and re-education camps preventing Uyghurs from being fully socialized into Uyghur culture. I realize now having read more and looked at the authors bio what a propaganda hack job this is. repetitions of any incendiary claim he comes across, even the lowest of the low, like without caveat quoting from an anonymous Chinese official that spoke to RFA, i.e. a person who almost certainly does not exist. I don't find him doubting or debunking any anti-china claim yet, which is inexcusable, Instead the pattern is often "Zenz describes how China is doing something bad, and though the evidence he uses isn't conclusive I hope it poisons the well enough that these separate claims start sounding believable"

example: By late February 2017, the government began construction of 4,387 preschools that were intended to serve 562,900 new students, particularly in the south of the Uyghur homeland, with a completion deadline before the beginning of the 2017–2018 school year. While this goal itself appeared ambitious, it is noteworthy that during the 2017–2018 school year, the number of children enrolled in preschool was far greater than this target. While the total preschool intake target for the region in fall 2017 had been around one million, the actual number enrolled was closer to 1.4 million. [I.e. China is building new schools to meet the current approximate demand] Furthermore, Zenz suggests that a substantial number of these new preschool students appeared to attend institutions with the capacity to house boarding students from a very early age. While there is no way to prove conclusively that this larger enrollment figure is accounted for by the children of interned parents, there are few other reasonable reasons for it. If this is the case, these children have effectively become wards of the state unless they are returned to their parents once they have ‘graduated’ from ‘re-education.’

The footnotes are pretty bad, I think also. Chapter 2 footnote 43 is useless, and contradicts his claim for at least two Uyghurs I was able to find there.