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How a Childhood Memory Opened a Window on Islam in China
References to Islam were just about unheard of during my upbringing in China — except for the stop-motion cartoon of Ah Fan Ti. Decades later, lightning would strike to trigger a reinterpretation of those days — reverberating beyond my childhood and into today’s world of migration, faith and ethnic rivalry.
How Hui Muslims Waged Holy War for China in World War II
The anti-Japanese resistance is perhaps the most formative episode in Chinese national memory. Hui Muslim participation in it was grounded in philosophies of coexistence, survival and social harmony that went back centuries and helped solidify the enduring Hui presence in China.