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100 1  Gillette, Maris Boyd. 
245 10 Between Mecca and Beijing :|bmodernization and consumption
       among urban Chinese Muslims /|cMaris Boyd Gillette. 
260    Stanford, Calif. :|bStanford University Press,|cc2000. 
300    xii, 279 p. :|bill., map ;|c23 cm. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-267) and 
       index. 
505 0  Chapter 1 Modernization and Consumption 1 -- Chapter 2 
       Housing, Education, and Race 22 -- Chapter 3 Mosques, 
       Qur'anic Education, and Arabization 68 -- Chapter 4 
       Traditional Food and Race 114 -- Chapter 5 Factory Food, 
       Modernization, and Race 145 -- Chapter 6 Alcohol and 
       "Building a Civilized Society" 167 -- Chapter 7 Wedding 
       Gowns and Modernization 192 -- Chapter 8 Consumption and 
       Modernization 221. 
520 1  "Between Mecca and Beijing examines how a community of 
       urban Chinese Muslims uses consumption to position its 
       members more favorably within the Chinese government's 
       official paradigm for development. Residents of the old 
       Muslim district in the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an 
       belong to an official minority (the Hui nationality) that 
       has been classified by the state as "backward" in 
       comparison to China's majority (Han) population. Though 
       these Hui urbanites, like the vast majority of Chinese 
       citizens, accept the assumptions about social evolution 
       upon which such labels are based, they actively reject the
       official characterization of themselves as less civilized 
       and modern than the Han majority." "By selectively 
       consuming goods and adopting fashions they regard as 
       modern and non-Chinese - which include commodities and 
       styles from both the West and the Muslim world - these 
       Chinese Muslims seek to demonstrate that they are capable 
       of modernizing without the guidance or the assistance of 
       the state. In so doing, they challenge one of the 
       fundamental roles the Chinese Communist government has 
       claimed for itself, that of guide and purveyor of 
       modernity. Through a detailed study of the daily life - 
       eating habits, dress styles, housing, marriage and death 
       rituals, religious practices, education, family 
       organization - of the Hui inhabitants of Xi'an, the author
       explores the effects of a state-sponsored ideology on an 
       urban Chinese Muslim neighborhood."--Jacket. 
650  0 Consumption (Economics)|zChina|zXi'an (Shaanxi Sheng) 
650  0 Muslims|zChina|zXi'an (Shaanxi Sheng) 
651  0 Xi'an Shi (China)|xSocial conditions.