...John Chen Abstract Muslim leaders in China experienced political and social fracture and intellectual reorientation as a result of the Chinese Civil War (1945–49) and the early Cold War. Influential Chinese Muslim and Uyghur imams and officials who were once allies and friends found themselves...

...John T. Chen From 1938 to 1947, a Chinese Muslim scholar named Muhammad Tawāḍuʿ Pang (known in China as Pang Shiqian) lived and studied at al-Azhar, Cairo’s famed center of Islamic learning. During his time in Egypt, he produced his Arabic-language magnum opus, China and Islam , published...

... in Rural Chinese Homes Charlotte Bruckermann S tepping from the bright sunshine into the dim light of a family home in Sweeping Cliff village in northern China, one was often greeted by a beaming poster of Chairman Mao superimposed onto the venerable position formerly reserved for the God of Wealth...

...Kaveh Louis Hemmat The Khatay'namah , or Book of China , a description of Chinese government and society in the mid-Ming period, written by a Central Asian merchant and presented to the Ottoman court in 1516, is evidence that the advent of more rationalized, centralized, and bureaucratic forms...

...Mary E. John This essay engages with the text The Birth of Chinese Feminism, which centers primarily on the writings of He-Yin Zhen, one of the earliest Chinese feminists, produced at the turn of the twentieth century and translated into English for the first time. He-Yin offered China...

...Anupama Rao In this introduction, Rao discusses the importance of The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory , edited by Lydia H. Liu, Rebecca E. Karl, and Dorothy Ko, and the resulting Kitabkhana, or book forum. The contributors to the Kitabkhana address The Birth...

... the opposite purpose. From the perspective of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), religion cannot be the basis for legitimate political identity. Islam, however, is not just a religion. Rather, as a “social system,” Islam constitutes a legitimate basis for national identity, and the Hui (Huihui), or Chinese...

... corridors under Beijing's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is channeling upwards of $50 billion of Chinese investment into Pakistan. Yet this border locale has seen little benefit. This article argues that current transborder investments, corresponding infrastructure development, and new...

... in the wake of the Chinese possession of the bomb. Both strategies were instruments of US ideological posturing in the developing world, a convergence of interventions that provided the perfect opportunity for Indian actors to seize the initiative and establish a foothold for a space program through...

... of the Silk Road(s). By reading Greco-Roman and particularly Chinese sources on the contacts between the eastern and western termini of the Eurasian continent, this article demonstrates that the Silk Road is not only a nineteenth-century name but, indeed, a modern historiographical invention, serving to lump...

...Wang Hui Wang Hui's article, which is part of the author's larger project on the multiple origins of the Chinese humanities, examines the impact of the modern Western education system on disciplinary divisions in China. The article looks specifically at the development of humanities in China after...

...Max Ajl Abstract This article considers the influence of Maoist China on Tunisian development theory in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The shadow—or brilliant light—of the Chinese experience was evident in Tunisia by the late 1950s, where wide-scale agrarian reform within the People's Republic...

... to the Chinese, both iconographic and textual evidence attest to the continuity of the indigenous Zoroastrian tradition in both Sogdiana and among the Sogdian communities from Turpan to Changan. Duke University Press 2011 The Sogdians: Prime...

...Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg Abstract With the Chinese invasion of Tibet, exile-Tibetan Buddhist leaders have found new bases for their monastic endeavors in the Himalayan regions of India and Nepal. This article highlights how the northwest Himalayan region of Ladakh has become a homeland...

... for the purpose of winning supplied arms and money to several liberation groups in the allegiance of foreign people and which was meant to con- southern Africa. This contact was motivated by a missionary vey to them the “star-like radiance” of the imperial ambas- zeal among the Chinese to advance...

...- moron, presents itself. As Sinologists preoccupy themselves with questions on why China fell, or, more precisely, fell back behind Western Europe, various scholars are struck by the general Chinese economic success in the history...

... and Turning Points: Toward a History of Kāvya Literature . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Chang Kang-i Sun Owen Stephen , eds. The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature . 2 vols. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . Kern Martin Hegel Robert E...

... of and early twentieth centuries were marked by in- another category labeled women. This process tensive European colonial and missionary explo- derived from the uncritical assumption [made by ration in Africa and Asia. In The Birth of Chinese Yoruba scholars...

... but a few centuries earlier. centuries few a but exported been had they which from origin, of country their to “returning” merely were techniques monks Buddhist the by China. .  symbolism. alchemical of veneer bore the already context, but in Chinese the which, techniques...

... and extraordinarily lively account of the York and then from China, for the Nation, the New Republic, Indian and Chinese movements of the first half of our cen- and the more mainstream press, until her reportage was tury. scorned in the nascent McCarthy era after World...