The conundrum of collaboration: Japanese involvement with Muslims in North China, 1931-1945
[Thesis]
Kelly Anne Hammond
Millward, James
Georgetown University
2015
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Committee members: Benedict, Carol; Lipman, Jonathan; Sand, Jordan
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-93611-7
Ph.D.
History
Georgetown University
2015
This dissertation argues that Chinese Muslims living under occupation who collaborated with the Japanese were actively involved in creating an on-going dialogue between the Japanese Empire and the Chinese Nationalists about strategies for managing minority populations on the mainland. The dissertation describes some of the ways which the Japanese transformed the social and political milieu in which Islam operated in North China and argues that the Japanese approach ultimately shaped the minority policies of both Nationalist and later Communist governments in China. More broadly, the dissertation demonstrates that twentieth-century projects of nation and state building in China have shaped (and reshaped) people's understanding of the place of Islam in Chinese society and the place of Muslims from China in the Islamic world.
History; Islamic Studies; Modern history
Social sciences;China;China war;Islam;Japan;Nationalism;Wwii