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This dissertation presents discussions of approximately 100 Chinese art songs with a view toward their historical background and textual content as well as their connections to Confucianist and Daoist philosophies as they relate to culture and art. It is also an interpretive gui…

This dissertation examines the ethnicization of Islam among a specific ethnic group in China, namely the Hui. It is based upon sixteen months of multi-sited fieldwork conducted in China's Henan Province and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region from 2010 to 2012. I argue that the partic…