Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China

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University of Washington Press, 1997 - History - 266 pages
While narrating a history of the Muslims of northwest China, this book examines the nature of ethnicity and periphery, the role of religion and ethnicity in personal and collective decisions in violent times, and the complexity of belonging to two cultures at once.

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Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China
Jonathan N. Lipman
Limited preview - 2011
Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China
Jonathan N. Lipman
No preview available - 1998

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About the author (1997)

Jonathan N. Lipman is professor emeritus of history at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China (University of Washington Press, 1998); coauthor of Modern East Asia: An Integrated History (Pearson, 2012); and coeditor of Islamic Thought in China: Sino-Muslim Intellectual Evolution from the 17th to the 21st Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) and Violence in Chinese Society: Studies in Culture and Counterculture (SUNY, 1990).

Bibliographic information

TitleFamiliar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China
Studies on ethnic groups in China, ISSN 2692-0026
AuthorJonathan Neaman Lipman
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of Washington Press, 1997
ISBN0295976446, 9780295976440
Length266 pages
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History / Asia / China
Religion / Islam / General
Social Science / Islamic Studies
Social Science / Minority Studies
  
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