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Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China)
Jonathan N. Lipman
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| #1452885 in Books | 1998-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.80 x6.00l,1.04 | File type: PDF | 318 pages||32 of 33 people found the following review helpful.| The periphery of two worlds|By Stephen Taylor|Most Americans don't know squat about Islam itself, let alone Islam in China. Yet today there are about 15 million Muslims in China, centered mostly in the northwest (Xinjiang province), along the margins of the old Silk Road. And they aren't just an insignificant minority: in the Middle Ages, for instance, Chinese Muslims play||"Jonathan N. Lipman appeals for such a new approach with a warning against the conceptual pitfalls of 'hegemonic narrative' and the 'errors of universalism and overgeneralization that plague the dominant paradigms,' especially in the study of Chinese history."
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 diff...
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