... Dianchi Shans al-Din]. Qingzhen yuebao , no. 31. Reprinted in Zhongguo Yisilanjiaoshi cankao ziliao xuanbian, 1911–1949 [China Islamic history reference material selections, 1911–1949], ed. Xinghua Li and jinyuan Fen , vol. 1 . Yinchuan : Ningxia People's Publishing Society . Shouyi...

... Book Co . Chen Ta-Sheng , ed. 1984 . Islamic Inscriptions in Quanzhou . Tr. Enming Chen . Yinchuan : Ningxia Peoples Publishing Society and Quanzhou: Fujian People's Publishing Society . Chen Ta-Sheng . 1989 . “The Role of the Mosque in the Reacceptance of Islam by Muslim...

... in regard to inheritance issues and property law. In commercial law, Erie's research in Ningxia found that Hui did not wish to follow Islamic law: they had no desire to live in accordance with Shari'a laws on finance. Hui will sometimes use Han lawyers to bring a case before the state's legal authorities...

...Qitao Guo Zhongguo gudai xing wenhua . [Sexual Culture in Ancient China] , By Liu Dalin . Yinchuan, Ningxia renmin chubanshe , 1993 . 24 color illustrations, with English Table of Contents. 1041 pp. 35.00 yuan (c. US$4.00). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... from the northwest region of Ningxia to Beijing's Oxen Street, from suburban farmers near Beijing to the highly assimilated lineages of Quanzhou in Fujian. Each community is distinctive: the Ningxia Hui, surrounded by an Islamic revival in the region, become daily more orthodox; myriad pressures bear...

... journeys, by train, car, and occasionally on foot, he visited Baotou (Inner Mongolian A.R Yinchuan (Ningxia Hui A.R Bayanhaote (Inner Mongolian A.R Lanzhou (Gansu), Xining and Gonghe (Qinghai), Urumqi and Turfan (Xinjiang Uygur A.R Ganzi (Sichuan), and Kunming with its hinterland in Yunnan, almost all...

... focuses on China's northwestern frontier (present-day Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, and Xinjiang). The northwestern frontier was largely a Muslim-majority region. However, Chinese Muslims or Hui lived not just in the Northwest but all over China. They were also different from the Uyghurs, another sizeable...

... to "listen to Muslim voices," and "not just those of a Westernized elite" (p. 164). The authors carefully incorporate examples, from the Comoros Islands in East Africa to the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of northwest China to the French Muslims (constituting 5 percent of the population, some 4 million...

... in the Ningxia-Gansu area that depicted scenes of animal predation, and of pectorals in the Northern Hebei area. Relying on the spatial patterning of subject matter, artifact style, and technical elements, Bunker also proposes that China s northeast region had closer ties with Mongolia and eastern Siberia than...

..., Wang is in exile, and Bai is in prison for his activities during the pro-democracy movement. Their monograph is concerned with the "third world division" within China itself. Whether guided by strict socialist planning or the post-Mao reforms, the interior provinces Yunnan, Guizhou, Ningxia, Qinghai...

... leaders, although its publication is often influenced by them. Narrators may relate nondoctrinal texts, and their stories may not always reflect an assumed ethnic or cultural homogeneity. Of the 125 tales, approximately one-half were collected in Ningxia, with the rest coming from thirteen other provinces...

... of Salvation is one of the most important books to have appeared in recent years with respect to the study of Islam/Muslims in China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in rural Ningxia and marshaling an impressive array of sources indicative of the author's wide-ranging linguistic mastery and knowledge...

... in southern Ningxia against the newly minted socialist state in the 1950s and faced massive retributive persecution subsequently. They also were involved in armed intercommunal feuds in the early 1990s, which resulted in the death of dozens of Muslims belonging to rival groups and later invited military...

... died even before Kangxi could start his expedition from Ningxia, and therefore the author concludes with grim humor his campaign was a war against an already deceased enemy (p. 34). The following parts of this chapter deal with the history of the compilation of the Manchu and Chinese fanglue...

... of an individual and transfer merit to a relative in the afterlife or to denote the religious faith of a community of devotees. The remaining chapters present ve regionally grouped treatments of steles in Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu-Ningxia, and Sichuan (the only southern territory covered) and a treatment...

.... 164). The authors carefully incorporate examples, from the Comoros Islands in East Africa to the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of northwest China to the French Muslims (constituting 5 percent of the population, some 4 million persons), to demonstrate how notions of authority, legitimacy, and justice...

.... Their monograph is concerned with the "third world division" within China itself. Whether guided by strict socialist planning or the post-Mao reforms, the interior provinces Yunnan, Guizhou, Ningxia, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet lag behind in per capita income, in development of infrastructure...

...-trodden paths along which styles and materials appear to have owed. Thus, we learn of the popularity of cast animal gurines used to decorate vehicles in the Ordos Desert region, of belt plaques in the Ningxia-Gansu area that depicted scenes of animal predation, and of pectorals in the Northern Hebei...

...). Though the regions of Gansu, Ningxia, and Qinghai may perhaps always be alien to outsiders, Chinese and Westerners alike, Lipman helps us to understand why the inhabitants are not aliens to Chinese society or the outside, but closely connected to the wider world and cultures among whom they moved...

... homogeneity. Of the 125 tales, approximately one-half were collected in Ningxia, with the rest coming from thirteen other provinces. The majority are dated between 1978 and 1990. They are grouped along thematic lines, such as "The First Ancestors of Hui Muslims," "Hui Leaders With and Against the Empire...