From ‘Literati’ to ‘Ulama’: The Origins of Chinese Muslim Nationalist Historiography

Benite, Zvi Ben‐Dor

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“…Chinese Muslims have had a sense of themselves as a distinctively Chinese kind of Muslim, and as a distinctively Muslim kind of Chinese, since at least the eighteenth century, and probably since the Ming dynasty (Benite 2002(Benite , 2004; see also Atwill 2003). For most Chinese Muslims prior to the twentieth century, and for many now, Islam has been at the center of Hui identity.…”

Section: The Xi'an Muslim Community and The Hui "Nationality"mentioning

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Violence, the State, and a Chinese Muslim Ritual Remembrance

Gillette¹

2008

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This article discusses how contemporary Chinese Muslims in the city of Xi'an remember a massive conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims that devastated northwest China in the Tongzhi period (1862-74) of the Qing dynasty. Every year on the seventeenth day of the fifth lunar month, local Hui hold a series of mourning rituals for the Muslims who died at that time. They recount stories about these events during the ritual and in other settings. The author uses Bakhtin's concept of "social heteroglossia" to explore the discursive features of three accounts of the violence, arguing that Xi'an Hui memories of this past show the influence of state-sponsored ethnic policies, a religious model of Hui identity, and a less formally articulated collective sentiment (what Raymond Williams calls a "structure of feeling") based on shared experience. The author discusses how these discourses are disseminated and which factors generate the "structure of feeling" that colors contemporary Muslim accounts of the Tongzhi period, and reflects on the consequences of Xi'an Hui internalization of the state's framework for ethnic identity.

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Section: The Xi'an Muslim Community and The Hui "Nationality"mentioning

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Violence, the State, and a Chinese Muslim Ritual Remembrance

Gillette¹

2008

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The Chengda Teachers School and Modern China's Frontier Politics: Ethnicity and Religion in the Implementation of Republican Law, 1925–49

Chen

2022

J of Asian Stud

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The military victories of the Northern Expedition (1926–28) ended nearly two decades of political fragmentation and ushered in a new era of centralized government in China. A key concern of the Nationalist government, based in Nanjing, was bringing the haphazard array of private schools that had emerged since the republic's founding in 1911 in line with the Nationalists’ political agenda. The Nationalist leadership also hoped to use their educational reforms to bring the frontier regions, many of which were only tenuously allied with Nanjing, more formally under their control. Thus, the new regime set out to achieve the twin goals of regulating private schools and cultivating ties among the frontier region's population. These two goals became entangled in an unexpected manner at the private Muslim Chengda Teachers School. Although the Nationalists banned private teachers schools in 1933, they deliberately exempted Chengda from such regulations to further their frontier agenda. Later, when the central government's frontier political calculations changed, the Nationalists rescinded such protection and forced Chengda to abide by the original regulations.

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Lost Voices: Chinese Muslim Modernists and the Issue of Polygamy in the Republican Era

Chen

2020

International Journal of Asian Studies

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This study brings the voices of Chinese Muslim modernists back into discussions on polygamy in the Republican era. Starting from the late nineteenth century, abolishing the practice of polygamous marriage became a vital component of Chinese modernizing elites’ vision of modern Chinese society, as they saw polygamy as an obstacle to modernization. Chinese Muslim modernists actively engaged in China's struggle with polygamy. Their dynamic discussions on polygamy were not insignificant and peripheral. On the contrary, when the Republican law promoting monogamy was hard to implement, some Chinese Muslim modernists pushed their fellow Muslims to set examples for other Chinese to obey the law. The Chinese translations of Arabic scholarly work even helped some Chinese Muslim modernists take a different approach to the issue of polygamy by arguing that polygamy, if properly regulated, could be beneficial to modern societies.

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From ‘Literati’ to ‘Ulama’: The Origins of Chinese Muslim Nationalist Historiography

Cited by 11 publications

References 1 publication

Violence, the State, and a Chinese Muslim Ritual Remembrance

Violence, the State, and a Chinese Muslim Ritual Remembrance

The Chengda Teachers School and Modern China's Frontier Politics: Ethnicity and Religion in the Implementation of Republican Law, 1925–49

Lost Voices: Chinese Muslim Modernists and the Issue of Polygamy in the Republican Era

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