LEADER 00000cam 22002894a 4500 001 43567467 003 OCoLC 005 20140220044128.0 008 000225s2000 cauab b 001 0 eng 010 00027259 019 48363014 020 9780804746854 040 DLC|beng|cDLC|dUKM|dEL$|dBAKER|dNLGGC|dBTCTA|dYDXCP|dSTF |dOCLCQ|dIG#|dUBC|dDEBBG|dOCL|dOCLCQ|dZWZ|dVA@|dOCLCQ|dBDX 042 pcc 043 a-cc-ss 050 00 HC430.C6|bG56 2000 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.
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