Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China
Jonathan N. Lipman
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800554
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 "self" and "other" and denied the totally transforming power of Chinese civilization by tenaciously maintaining connections 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 ... Read more
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James D. Frankel
Religious Studies Review
"This book lays the foundation for future studies of Chinese Muslims . . ... Read more