Familiar Strangers : A History of Muslims in Northwest China /
The Chinese-speaking Muslims have for centuries been an inseparable 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 conceptions of...
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Maps ; List of Illustrations ; Preface ; Introduction: Purposes and Form of a Muslim History in China ; 1. The Frontier Ground and Peoples of Northwest China ; 2. Acculturation and Accomodation: China's Muslims to the Seventeenth Century ; 3. Connections: Muslims in the Early Qing, 1644-1781 ; 4. Strategies of Resistance: Integration by Violence ; 5. Strategies of Integration: Muslims in New China ; 6. Conclusion: Familiar Strangers ; Chinese Character Glossary ; Bibliography ; Index.