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Pure and True - The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims (Paperback)
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Pure and True - The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims (Paperback)
Series: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
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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 homeland or a distinct language, and have
long been partitioned by sect, class, region, and language. Despite
these divisions, they still express a common ethnic identity. Why
doesn't conflict plague relationships between the Hui and the
state? And how do they navigate their ethnicity in a political
climate that is increasingly hostile to Muslims? Pure and True
draws on interviews with ordinary urban Hui-cooks, entrepreneurs,
imams, students, and retirees-to explore the conduct of ethnic
politics within Hui communities in the cities of Jinan, Beijing,
Xining, and Yinchuan and between Hui and the Chinese party-state.
By examining the ways in which Hui maintain ethnic identity through
daily practices, it illuminates China's management of relations
with its religious and ethnic minority communities. It finds that
amid state-sponsored urbanization projects and in-country
migration, the boundaries of Hui identity are contested primarily
among groups of Hui rather than between Hui and the state. As a
result, understandings of which daily habits should be considered
"proper" or "correct" forms of Hui identity diverge along
professional, class, regional, sectarian, and other lines. By
channeling contentious politics toward internal boundaries, the
state is able to manage ethnic politics and exert control.
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