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Islamic China: An Asian History
For more than a millennium, Islam has been a Chinese religion, and native-born Chinese Muslims have played important roles in their homeland, from royal astronomers to butchers, merchants to diplomats, and scholar-officials to farmers. Yet the Muslims of China are often depicted as inherently foreign, their religion as incompatible with Chinese culture. Islamic China offers a re-appraisal of this history, endeavoring to recapture the ordinariness of Chinese Muslim communities as they created a bewildering diversity of Islamic cultures, in constant conversation with Muslims abroad and non-Muslims at home. In doing so, it explores how these communities, whose categorization has so often been seen as problematic, can teach us something about the ways social categories are made.
Date:
4 May 2026, 16:00
Venue:
Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details:
Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Speaker:
Dr Rian Thum (University of Manchester)
Organising department:
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Organiser:
Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
information@chinese.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford)
Part of:
China Centre talks
Booking required?:
Not required
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Clare Orchard
