In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Middle Ages was centered in the north and featured a significantly multicultural society. Many events that were profoundly formativ…
"This title was first published in 1990: This book is a study of past and present policies of the People's Republic of China towards its numerous and varied minority groups, a subject about which there is scant information in the West. It examines the impact of Chinese culture o…
Introduction: Modernization and Hui ethnicity in urban China -- Chapter 1. "God is a drug": ethnic politics in the Xi Jinping era -- Chapter 2. Choosing: citizenship, faith, and marriage -- Chapter 3. Talking: Arabic language and literacy -- Chapter 4. Consuming: Islamic purity …
The Chinese Communist Party points to the Hui-China's largest Muslim ethnic group-as a model ethnic minority and touts its harmonious relations with the group as an example of the party's great success in ethnic politics. The Hui number over ten million, but they lack a common h…
Ethnic China: identity, assimilation, and resistance