Table of Contents

Part 1 Muslim nationalism in China - a fourth tide: Qing Zhen - expressions of Hui identity; state power and the evolution of an ethnonym; the problem - who are the Hui?; sociocultural diversity among the Hui; three tides of Islam in China; the fourth tide - ethnic nationalism in an age of nation-states. Part 2 Ethnographic research and the Chinese state: theoretical perspectives on Hui identity; the rise of the nation-state and the invention of ethnicity; Han nationalism and the creation of nationalities in China; derivative discourses and Chinese traditional nationalism; the ethnogenesis of the Hui - from Muslim to minority nationality; the research - in search of the Hui; the unity and diversity of Hui identity - four communities in flux. Part 3 Ethnoreligious resurgence in a northwestern Sufi community: a fundamentalist revivial in Na homestead?; the rerooting of identity in Na homestead; ethnoreligious roots; the socioeconomic context; local government policies and Na national identity; truth within purity - expressions of Na identity. Part 4 Ethnic identity in Oxen Street - the urban experience: making Hui in the city - the urban problem; Oxen street, an urban Hui enclave; recurring texts in Oxen Street; the socioeconomic context of Oxen Street Hui identity; government policy and urban strategies; the culture of purity - Hui identity in the city. Part 5 The other great wall - ethnic endogamy and exclusivity in a Hui autonomous village: ethnohistorical origins of a Hui autonomous village; ethnic coherence and Changying identity; Changying traditions of rural entrepreneurship; ethnoreligious marriage traditions in Changying; preserving purity through ethnic endogamy - ethnoreligious strategies and government policy in Changying. Part 6 Ethnic invention and state intervention in a southeastern lineage: no pigs for these ancestors - the memory of Muslim ancestry in Chendai; the cultural basis for Chendai Hui identity; socioeconomic factors in Chendai Hui identity; ethnic identity and national policy - the "Taiwanese Muslims"; public policy and ethnic revitalization in Chendai; becoming ethnic in China; purity within truth - Hui identity among southeastern lineages. Part 7 Conclusion - national identity in the Chinese nation-state: the people of the People's Republic - finally in the vanguard?; the social life of labels; objectified ethnonyms in the northwest; the hardening of ethnonyms in the southwest; "sub-ethnic" identities and the question of Han ethnicity; the rise of "united nationalities"; ethnic pluralism in Chinese society; the dialectics of nationality policy and Hui identity; ethnicity and nationalism in the People's Republic. Appendices: Hui Islamic orders in China; a select glossary of Hui Islamic terms.