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Ethnographies of Islam in China (Paperback)
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Ethnographies of Islam in China (Paperback)
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In the late 1970s Islam regained its force by generating novel
forms of piety and forging new paths in politics throughout the
world, including China. The Islamic revival in China, which came to
fruition in the 2000s and the 2010s, prompted increases in
government suppression but also intriguing resonances with the
broader Muslim world—from influential theoretical and political
contestations over Muslim women’s status, the popularization of
mass media and the appearance of new patterns of consumption, to
increases in transnational Muslim migration. Although China does
not belong to the "Islamic world" as it is conventionally
understood, China’s Muslims have strengthened and expanded their
global connections and impact. Such significant shifts in Chinese
Muslim life have received scant scholarly attention until now. With
contributions from a wide variety of scholars—all sharing a
commitment to the value of the ethnographic approach—this volume
provides the first comprehensive account of China’s Islamic
revival since the 1980s as the country struggled to recover from
the wreckage of the Cultural Revolution. The authors show the
multifarious nature of China’s Islam revival, which defies any
reductive portrayal that paints it as a unified development
motivated by a common ideology, and demonstrate how it was embedded
in China’s broader economic transition. Most importantly, they
trace the historical genealogies and sociopolitical conditions that
undergird the crackdown on Muslim life across China, confronting
head-on the difficulties of working with Muslims—Uyghur Muslims
in particular—at a time of intense religious oppression,
intellectual censorship, and intrusive surveillance technology.
With chapters on both Hui and Uyghur Muslims, this book also
traverses boundaries that often separate studies of these two
groups, and illustrates with great clarity the value of
disciplinary and methodological border-crossing. As such,
Ethnographies of Islam in China is essential reading for those
interested in Islam’s complexity in contemporary China and its
broader relevance to the Muslim world and the changing nature of
Chinese society seen through the prism of religion.
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