Until quite recently, Western scholars have tended to accept the Chinese representation of non-Han groups as marginalized minorities. Dru C. Gladney challenges this simplistic ...

Majorities are made, not born. This book argues that there are no pure majorities in the Asia-Pacific region, broadly defined, nor in the West, and challenges the thesis that ...

This study focuses on the politics of memory in the village of Dachuan in northwest China, in which 85 percent of the villagers are surnamed Kong and believe themselves to be ...

Upon coming to power in 1949, the Chinese Communist government proclaimed that its stance toward ethnic minorities--who comprise approximatelyeight percent of China’s ...

For several centuries now the Muslim Midwest, notably the Northwest and the Southwest, had been the “Muslim country” of China. Although Muslims only sporadically constituted ...

This book is the first ethnographic study of Muslim minorities' practice of Islamic law in contemporary China.