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Islamic Frontiers of China

Author : Wong How Man
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781848857025
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Islamic Frontiers of China written by Wong How Man and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are over twenty million Muslims in China today. From the mountainous borders with Afghanistan to the tropical island of Hainan, the ethnicities and cultures of Chinaʹs Muslims are as diverse as China herself. They come from at least ten different ethnic groups, including the Persianate Tajiks in the Pamir Mountains, Kirgiz eagle hunters in the west, and the Chinese speaking Hui living in Canton. In recent years the worldʹs attention has been drawn to the clashes between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese in Xinjiang Province. But how does a Muslim minority in the Peopleʹs Republic of China live today? After decades of communist rule, and now under the onslaught of commerce and consumerism, what pressures do the different communities and their heritages face? How Man Wong, a renowned Chinese explorer and Adel Dajani, with his Muslim background, come together to explore the regions of the Asian borderlands where the traditions of Islam and China interact. Their collaboration has resulted in this lavishly illustrated book which gives us a glimpse of the rich diversity of life on the Islamic frontiers of China. -- Publisher description.

Familiar Strangers

Author : Jonathan N. Lipman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295800550
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Familiar Strangers written by Jonathan N. Lipman and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese-speaking Muslims have for centuries been an inseperable but anomalous part of Chinese society--Sinophone yet incomprehensible, local yet outsiders, normal but different. Long regarded by the Chinese government as prone to violence, they have challenged fundamental Chinese conceptiosn of Self and Other and denied the totally transforming power of Chinese civilization by tenaciously maintaining connectios with Central and West Asia as well as some cultural differences from their non-Muslim neighbors. Familiar Strangers narrates a history of the Muslims of northwest China, at the intersection of the frontiers of the Mongolian-Manchu, Tibetan, Turkic, and Chinese cultural regions. Based on primary and secondary sources in a variety of languages, Familiar Strangers examines the nature of ethnicity and periphery, the role of religion and ethnicity in personal and collective decisions in violent times, and the complexity of belonging to two cultures at once. Concerning itself with a frontier very distant from the core areas of Chinese culture and very strange to most Chinese, it explores the influence of language, religion, and place on Sino-Muslim identity.

China and Islam

Author : Matthew S. Erie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107053374
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book China and Islam written by Matthew S. Erie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first ethnographic study of Muslim minorities' practice of Islamic law in contemporary China.

Uyghur Nation

Author : David Brophy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674660374
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Uyghur Nation written by David Brophy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the Russian-Qing frontier in the nineteenth century, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and revolution. David Brophy explores how a community of Central Asian Muslims responded to these historic changes by reinventing themselves as the Uyghur nation.

Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds

Author : Hyunhee Park
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107018684
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds written by Hyunhee Park and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the relationship and wisdom of Asian cartographers in the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the Europeans arrived.

Islamic Frontiers of China

Author : How Man Wong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Islamic Frontiers of China written by How Man Wong and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Xinjiang

Author : S. Frederick Starr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317451376
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Xinjiang written by S. Frederick Starr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eastern Turkestan, now known as Xinjiang or the New Territory, makes up a sixth of China's land mass. Absorbed by the Qing in the 1880s and reconquered by Mao in 1949, this Turkic-Muslim region of China's remote northwest borders on formerly Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Mongolia, and Tibet, Will Xinjiang participate in twenty-first century ascendancy, or will nascent Islamic radicalism in Xinjiang expand the orbit of instability in a dangerous part of the world? This comprehensive survey of contemporary Xinjiang is the result of a major collaborative research project begun in 1998. The authors have combined their fieldwork experience, linguistic skills, and disciplinary expertise to assemble the first multifaceted introduction to Xinjiang. The volume surveys the region's geography; its history of military and political subjugation to China; economic, social, and commercial conditions; demography, public health, and ecology; and patterns of adaption, resistance, opposition, and evolving identities.

The Chinese Sultanate

Author : David G. Atwill
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804751599
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Sultanate written by David G. Atwill and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first historical examination of a Muslim-led rebellion in mid-nineteenth-century China which carved out an independent sultanate along China's southwestern border lasting nearly seventeen years.

The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi

Author : Sachiko Murata
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684170494
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi written by Sachiko Murata and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liu Zhi (ca. 1670–1724) was one of the most important scholars of Islam in traditional China. His Tianfang xingli(Nature and Principle in Islam), the Chinese-language text translated here, focuses on the roots or principles of Islam. It was heavily influenced by several classic texts in the Sufi tradition. Liu’s approach, however, is distinguished from that of other Muslim scholars in that he addressed the basic articles of Islamic thought with Neo-Confucian terminology and categories. Besides its innate metaphysical and philosophical value, the text is invaluable for understanding how the masters of Chinese Islam straddled religious and civilizational frontiers and created harmony between two different intellectual worlds. The introductory chapters explore both the Chinese and the Islamic intellectual traditions behind Liu’s work and locate the arguments of Tianfang xingli within those systems of thought. The copious annotations to the translation explain Liu’s text and draw attention to parallels in Chinese-, Arabic-, and Persian-language works as well as differences.

Securing China's Northwest Frontier

Author : David Tobin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108488404
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Securing China's Northwest Frontier written by David Tobin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Tobin analyses how Chinese nation-building shapes identity and security dynamics between Han and Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

Dislocating China

Author : Dru C. Gladney
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
ISBN 13 : 9781850653240
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Dislocating China written by Dru C. Gladney and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 2004 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to challenge the way in which China and Chinese-ness is generally understood, privileged on a central tradition, a core culture, that tends to marginalise or peripheralise anything or anyone who does not fit that essential core. The Hui Muslim Chinese discussed in this volume demonstrate that one can be an integral part of Chinese society and yet challenge many of ourassumptions about that society itself. For that reason they and other so-called minority ethnics have generally been ignored by Western scholarship.

From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy

Author : Matthew Mosca
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804785384
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy written by Matthew Mosca and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview. In the same period, a single "foreign" policy emerged as an alternative to the many localized "frontier" policies hitherto pursued on the coast, in Xinjiang, and in Tibet. By unraveling Chinese, Manchu, and British sources to reveal the information networks used by the Qing empire to gather intelligence about its emerging rival, British India, this book explores China's altered understanding of its place in a global context. Far from being hobbled by a Sinocentric worldview, Qing China's officials and scholars paid close attention to foreign affairs. To meet the growing British threat, they adapted institutional practices and geopolitical assumptions to coordinate a response across their maritime and inland borderlands. In time, the new and more active response to Western imperialism built on this foundation reshaped not only China's diplomacy but also the internal relationship between Beijing and its frontiers.

The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760

Author : Richard M. Eaton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520205079
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 written by Richard M. Eaton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eaton ranges over all the important aspects of that community's history, whether political and social, or cultural and religious...This study must rank among the finest contributions to South Asian scholarship to appear for some while.

Land of Strangers

Author : Eric Schluessel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231197557
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Land of Strangers written by Eric Schluessel and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Schluessel explores the late nineteenth-century encounter between Chinese power and a Muslim society through the struggles of ordinary people in the oasis of Turpan. He traces the emergence of new struggles around essential questions of identity, recasting the attempted transformation of Xinjiang as a distinctly Chinese form of colonialism.

Living Shrines of Uyghur China

Author : Lisa Ross
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580933505
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Living Shrines of Uyghur China written by Lisa Ross and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Ross's ethereal photographs of Islamic holy sites were created over the course of a decade on journeys to China's Xinjiang region in Central Asia, historically a cultural crossroads but an area to which artists and researchers have generally been denied access since its annexation in 1949. These monumental images show shrines created during pilgrimages, many of which have been maintained continuously over several centuries; visitation to the tombs of saints is a central aspect of daily life in Uyghur Islam, and its pilgrims ask for intercession for physical, mental, and spiritual ailments. The shrines, adorned with small devotional offerings that mark a prayer or visit, are poignant representations of collective memory and a pacifistic faith, and endure despite vulnerability to natural forces of sand, heat, and powerful winds. Their simplicity and austerity as captured by Ross invoke ideas of spirituality, eternity, and transcendence. Three essays—by a historian of Central Asian Islam, a Uyghur folklorist, and the curator of an accompanying exhibition at the Rubin Museum of Art—situate the photographic content in context. This volume emerges at a critical time, as modernization and new policies for development of China's far west bring about rapid, extreme, and irrevocable change; the region is its largest source of untapped natural gas, oil, and minerals. Many of the sites in Ross's work are threatened by political and economic pressures—her images are valuable, therefore, not only for their intrinsic beauty, but as an important record of a rich and vibrant culture.

The Xinjiang Problem

Author : Graham E. Fuller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974329208
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book The Xinjiang Problem written by Graham E. Fuller and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Islamic Thought in China

Author : Jonathan Lipman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474426459
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Islamic Thought in China written by Jonathan Lipman and published by . This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tells the stories of Chinese Muslims trying to create coherent lives at the intersection of two potentially conflicting cultures. How can people belong simultaneously to two cultures, originating in two different places and expressed in two different languages, without alienating themselves from either? Muslims have lived in the Chinese culture area for 1400 years, and the intellectuals among them have long wrestled with this problem. Unlike Persian, Turkish, Urdu, or Malay, the Chinese language never adopted vocabulary from Arabic to enable a precise understanding of Islam's religious and philosophical foundations. Islam thus had to be translated into Chinese, which lacks words and arguments to justify monotheism, exclusivity, and other features of this Middle Eastern religion. Even in the 21st century, Muslims who are culturally Chinese must still justify their devotion to a single God, avoidance of pork, and their communities' distinctiveness--among other things--to sceptical non-Muslim neighbours and an increasingly intrusive state"--