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Lang Matl
Author Gillette, Maris Boyd.

Title Between Mecca and Beijing : modernization and consumption among urban Chinese Muslims / Maris Boyd Gillette.

Imprint Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2000.

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Location Call No. Status
 CCQ - Lusail Female Library  HC430.C6 G56 2000    Available
 CCQ - Lusail Female Library  HC430.C6 G56 2000    Available
Description xii, 279 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-267) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "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.
Subject Consumption (Economics) -- China -- Xi'an (Shaanxi Sheng)
Xi'an Shi (China) -- Social conditions.
Muslims -- China -- Xi'an (Shaanxi Sheng)
ISBN 9780804746854