{"id":1685,"date":"2020-11-10T12:05:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T12:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2020-11-14T20:11:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T20:11:33","slug":"ethnographies-of-islam-in-china-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"Ethnographies of Islam in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ethnographies-of-Islam_Book.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1700\" width=\"259\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ethnographies-of-Islam_Book.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ethnographies-of-Islam_Book-120x150.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Edited by Rachel Harris, Guangtian Ha, and Maria Jaschok University of Hawaii Press Nov 2020<\/strong><br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/uhpress.hawaii.edu\/title\/ethnographies-of-islam-in-china\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/uhpress.hawaii.edu\/title\/ethnographies-of-islam-in-china<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2014from influential theoretical and political contestations over Muslim women\u2019s 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 \u201cIslamic world\u201d as it is conventionally understood, China\u2019s 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\u2014all sharing a commitment to the value of the ethnographic approach\u2014this volume provides the first comprehensive account of China\u2019s Islamic revival since the 1980s as the country struggled to recover from the wreckage of the Cultural Revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors show the multifarious nature of China\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2014Uyghur Muslims in particular\u2014at 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.&nbsp;<em>Ethnographies of Islam in China&nbsp;<\/em>is essential reading for those interested in Islam\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edited by Rachel Harris, Guangtian Ha, and Maria Jaschok University of Hawaii Press Nov 2020 https:\/\/uhpress.hawaii.edu\/title\/ethnographies-of-islam-in-china In the late 1970s Islam regained its force by generating novel forms of piety and forging new paths in politics throughout the world, including&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=1685\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}