“Just like old friends”: the significance of Southeast Asia to modern Chinese Islam
During China's Republican era (1911-49), amid increasing contacts with Southeast Asia, Chinese Muslims crafted politically useful narratives of Sino-Islamic maritime exchange and Islam's contributions to Chinese civilization. Two examples stand out in particular: Bai Shouyi's scholars...
| Published in: | Sojourn |
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| Language: | English |
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2016
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B Islam B Asia B China B Islamic countries B Muslim B Delegation |
| Summary: | During China's Republican era (1911-49), amid increasing contacts with Southeast Asia, Chinese Muslims crafted politically useful narratives of Sino-Islamic maritime exchange and Islam's contributions to Chinese civilization. Two examples stand out in particular: Bai Shouyi's scholarship on the Song-era materia medica trade and the government-sponsored Chinese Islamic South Seas Delegation's wartime mission to Malaya. In both cases, Chinese Muslims asserted their connectedness not only to the Chinese nation-state and the Arab Middle East but also to the Islamic world as a whole. Southeast Asia's significance for modern Chinese Islam lay in providing an inspiration and a destination for these travelling civilizational narratives. (Sojourn/GIGA) |
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| ISSN: | 0217-9520 |
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