Jianxiong Ma (editor) - Islam and Chinese Society: Genealogies, Lineage and Local Communities

This book explores the long history in China of Chinese Muslims, known as the Hui people, and regarded as a minority, though in fact they are distinguished by religion rather than ethnicity. It shows how over time Chinese Muslims adopted Chinese practices as these evolved in wider Chinese society, practices such as constructing and recording patrilinear lineages, spreading genealogies, and propagating education and Confucian teaching, in the case of the Hui through the use of Chinese texts in the teaching of Islam at mosques. The book also examines much else, including the system of certification of mosques, the development of Sufi orders, the cultural adaptation of Islam at the local level, and relations between Islam and Confucianism, between the state and local communities, and between the educated Muslim elite and the Confucian literati. Overall, the book shows how extensively Chinese Muslims have been deeply integrated within a multi-cultural Chinese society.

Jianxiong Ma is Associate Professor in anthropology at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Oded Abt is a researcher and lecturer in Chinese social and religious history in the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Hai College, Israel.

Jide Yao is Professor of Ethnology and the Director of both the Southwest Asia Institute and the Center of Iran Studies of Yunnan University, China.

Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific

Series editor: David Faure, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Historians are being increasingly attracted by the methodology of historical anthropology, an approach which combines observations in the field with documentary analysis, both of official documents and of documents collected from local society. In China, historians have been pursuing such local historical research for a generation, with very little of this work being available in English hitherto. This series makes available in English research undertaken by the Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society project based at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and related work. The books argue that top-heavy, dynasty-centred history is incomplete without an understanding of how local communities were involved in the government process and in the creation of their own historical narratives. The books argue that Chinese social history needs to be rewritten from the bottom up.

2. Colonial Administration and Land Reform in East Asia

Edited by Sui-Wai Cheung

3. Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History

A Research Guide

Edited by Thomas David DuBois and Jan Kiely

4. The Transformation of Yunnan in Ming China

From the Dali Kingdom to Imperial Province

Edited by Christian Daniels and Jianxiong Ma

5. Lineage and Community in China, 1100500

Genealogical Innovation in Jiangxi

Xi He

6. Islam and Chinese Society

Genealogies, Lineage and Local Communities

Edited by Jianxiong Ma, Oded Abt, Jide Yao

For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/The-Historical-Anthropology-of-Chinese-Society-Series/book-series/HISTANTHCHINSOC

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Oded Abt is a researcher and lecturer in Chinese social and religious history. After he returned from a post-doctoral research period in the Area of Excellence Scheme: The Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society, Chinese University of Hong Kong, he joined the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Hai College in Israel as a faculty member. His current project is a book-length monograph entitled Muslim Memories and Chinese Identity.

Chung-fu Chang is an associate professor and former chair of the department of ethnology in National Chengchi University in Taiwan. He is also a distinguished professor of Minzu University of China in Beijing. His books include Anti-Qing Accidents and the Hui in Northwest China in the Qing Dynasty: Rethinking Social Adaptation and Ethnic Identity (in Chinese, Taipei: Lianjing, 2001).

Huiqian Ding is an associate professor of history at the Minzu University of China. She is the author The Zhafu, the Government, and the Mosque: Management of the Mosques by the Ming Government (in Chinese, Studies in World Religions, 2016 (5): 154-163).

Jonathan N. Lipman is a professor of history and chair of Asian studies at Mount Holyoke College in the U. S. He is the author of Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China (University of Washington Press, 1997) and an editor of Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counter (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990).

Jianxiong Ma is an associate professor in anthropology at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, his works include The Lahu Minority in Southwest China (London: Routledge, 2013) and research articles about ethnicity and Hui Muslim in the history of southwest frontier of China.

Zhihong Ma is the chief editor of journal The Hui and Islam Studies of Dali and the vice director of the Association of Hui Muslim studies in Dali Prefecture in Yunnan.

Zongbao Ma is a professor in ethnology and the president of Ningxia Normal University. His books include Relationship between the Hui Muslim and the Han Chinese in the Framework of Diversity under Unification of China (in Chinese, Yincuan: Peoples Publishing House of Ningxia, 2002), and Islam in Xihaigu (in Chinese, Yincuan: Peoples Publishing House of Ningxia, 2004).

Yue Que is a professor in School of Journalism and Communication of Lanzhou University. Her representative book The Second Order: Study on the Green Seeding Assembly in Taozhou since the Ming and the Qing