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9780295749822 : pure-and-true-stroup-harrell
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Pure and True

The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims

By David R. Stroup
Series edited by Stevan Harrell
University of Washington Press
The Chinese Communist Party points to the Hui—China's largest Muslim ethnic group—as a model ethnic minority and touts its harmonious relations with the group as an example of the Party's great success in ethnic politics. The Hui number over ten million, but they lack a common homeland or a distinct language, and have long been partitioned by sect, class, region, and language. Despite these divisions, they still express a common ethnic identity. Why doesn't conflict plague relationships between the Hui and the state? And how do they navigate their ethnicity in a political climate that is increasingly hostile to Muslims?

Pure and True draws on interviews with ordinary urban Hui—cooks, entrepreneurs, imams, students, and retirees—to explore the conduct of ethnic politics within Hui communities in the cities of Jinan, Beijing, Xining, and Yinchuan and between Hui and the Chinese party-state. By examining the ways in which Hui maintain ethnic identity through daily practices, it illuminates China's management of relations with its religious and ethnic minority communities. It finds that amid state-sponsored urbanization projects and in-country migration, the boundaries of Hui identity are contested primarily among groups of Hui rather than between Hui and the state. As a result, understandings of which daily habits should be considered "proper" or "correct" forms of Hui identity diverge along professional, class, regional, sectarian, and other lines. By channeling contentious politics toward internal boundaries, the state is able to manage ethnic politics and exert control.

About the Authors

David R. Stroup is lecturer in Chinese politics at the University of Manchester.

Reviews

"[A]n excellent book written against all odds."—International Journal of Asian Studies

"Stroup does a fabulous job personalizing his subjects while keeping a professional distance from them. He also grounds his observations in history, rooting his research not only in the field of Hui studies but in the history of urban development in China more broadly...His deep and thorough fieldwork allows him to draw from a multitude of different interviews from his four research sites (the Chinese cities of Beijing, Jinan, Yinchuan, and Xining) to make insightful and thoughtful conclusions about the ways that Hui Muslims negotiate the expression of their "everyday ethnicity."—Asian Ethnology

"Stroup's prose is lucid and pleasant to read, and his artful anecdotes from fieldwork draw the reader effectively into the midst of the issue at hand. It is rare that a study of ethnicity in China captures the everydayness, even the superficial banality, of negotiating difference, while showing that, under the surface, important tensions continue to simmer."—Inner Asia

"Every once in a while, one comes across a book that presents, in addition to new information and thought-provoking theorization, a precious opportunity for contemplating the great distance one's field has travelled...Stroup's accessible ethnographic descriptions and clear analyses render the book an essential reference for both general readers and established academics."—The China Quarterly

"This book offers a comparative, detailed, and thoughtful critique of China's ethnic politics in the context of China's urban transformation and migrationBy meticulously documenting mundane everyday life concerns, Pure and True does an excellent job of decentering the ethnic or religious identity as the only predominant factor that shapes China's heterogenous Hui communities."—Journal of Anthropological Research

Endorsements

"The subject is timely and becoming even more relevant considering the Chinese Communist Party's increasingly invasive measures to curb the perceived threat of Islamification."—Timothy A. Grose, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

"Makes an important contribution by focusing on the everyday politics of Hui identity, rather than the usual emphasis on ethnic contentious politics and resistance."—Isabelle Côté, Memorial University of Newfoundland

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Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies (42 Titles)
  • RELIGION / Islam / General (40 Titles)
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Hardback
March 7, 2022
9780295749822
English
268
6 b&w illus., 5 maps, 4 tables
9.00 Inches (US)
6.00 Inches (US)
1.15 Pounds (US)
$105.00 USD, £82.00 GBP
v2.1 Reference
Paperback / softback
March 7, 2022
9780295749839
English
268
6 b&w illus., 5 maps, 4 tables
9.00 Inches (US)
6.00 Inches (US)
.85 Pounds (US)
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9780295749822 : pure-and-true-stroup-harrell
Hardback
268 Pages
$105.00 USD
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268 Pages
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