Resistance and Assimilation: Transforming Security Roles of China’s Largest Muslim Minorities

García, Zenel

doi:10.1080/13602004.2016.1186426

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“…Finally, both China's Hui and Turkey's Kurds experienced severe treatment via homogenizing policies of nation building that explicitly excluded them from the state-promulgated narrative, while punishing expressions of these identities through language use, religious practice, and other publicly identifiable behaviors. These forms of repression fostered sentiments of resistance among members of each group that are well documented (on China see Atwill 2003;Chuah 2004;Garcia 2016; on Turkey's Kurds see Watts 2010;Tezcür 2015).…”

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Subversive Celebrations: Holidays as Sites of Minority Identity Contestation in Repressive Regimes

Hintz¹,

Quatrini

2020

Nationalities Papers

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What role do nationally celebrated holidays play for groups that are not considered—or do not consider themselves—to be part of the majority nation of a state? What function do holidays specific to minority group cultures serve under regimes that discriminate against those groups? This article explores holidays as a forum for contestation for the national identity proposals promulgated by the state in repressive regimes. We argue that national holidays are meaningful sites of identity contestation for four reasons: the role of holidays in heightening identity salience, the malleability of identity narratives, the relative lack of institutional barriers to acts of celebration, and the significance of refusing to participate in celebrations. We collected the data through interviews and participant observation of the Hui in China and the Kurds in Turkey. We employ ethnographic observation and intertextual analysis to compare these identity narratives. We find that the Hui legitimize their group’s existence by co-opting the traditional Spring Festival, or by outwardly insisting they are not celebrating while still engaging in festivities. In contrast, Turkey’s Kurds resist the government’s co-optation of the spring celebration of Newroz as a Turkish national holiday.

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Subversive Celebrations: Holidays as Sites of Minority Identity Contestation in Repressive Regimes

Hintz¹,

Quatrini

2020

Nationalities Papers

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China’s Favored Muslims? The Complex Relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and the Hui Ethnic Group

Durneika

2018

Sociol. Islam

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The People’s Republic of China remains a multinational unitary state, where the prc Constitution expressly guarantees freedom of religion and fair treatment of ethnic minorities. The Chinese Communist Party (ccp) retains ultimate authority regarding internal and external affairs, including the selective enforcement of constitutional rights. Various ethnic groups, such as the Turkic Uighurs, have long been perceived as rebellious, while the Muslim Hui have often been treated favorably, with laxer enforcement of laws and more religious autonomy. Many attribute this “model minority” perception of the Hui to cultural similarities shared with the Han. Although the ccp continues to allow religious freedoms to the Hui, the trajectory of persecution has slightly increased due to threats of global Islamist insurgencies. Leadership under President Xi Jinping seeks to maintain its power by combating “foreign infiltration” of Islam. Party officials allow Hui to interact with Muslim countries internationally under one circumstance—beneficial business transactions.

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Resistance and Assimilation: Transforming Security Roles of China’s Largest Muslim Minorities

Cited by 2 publications

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Subversive Celebrations: Holidays as Sites of Minority Identity Contestation in Repressive Regimes

Subversive Celebrations: Holidays as Sites of Minority Identity Contestation in Repressive Regimes

China’s Favored Muslims? The Complex Relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and the Hui Ethnic Group

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