عنوان

Seeking Knowledge Even Unto China:

شماره

TLpq2299779957

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Seeking Knowledge Even Unto China:

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Yang, Yang

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

Grassroots Muslim Connections, the New Silk Road, and the Hui in Xi'An, China

نام ساير پديدآوران

Oakes, Timothy

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Colorado at Boulder

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2019

نام خاص و کميت اثر

223

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Colorado at Boulder

امتياز متن

2019

متن يادداشت

This dissertation analyzes Hui Muslims in northwestern China and how they revive new orientations and practices from the global Islamic discourse into the Muslim community in Xi'an. The dissertation explores how the Hui negotiate their everyday ethno-religious identity between the nation-state and the global Ummah. Muslim spaces render different imaginations of global Muslim communities that are locally relevant in producing a transnational sense of place in social and political contexts. Based on ethnographies conducted in the Hui Quarter in Xi'an between 2015 and 2016 and supporting discourse analysis, this dissertation explores three different aspects of forging locally produced transnational connections with the external Muslim world. These include the transfer of Muslim wedding styles from South and Southeast Asia, grassroots Muslim charitable groups and their reference to the Iranian project the "wall of kindness," and the Hui Muslims' participation in the government-sponsored annual Hajj to Saudi Arabia. These three different examples emphasize the emergence of transnational Muslim identity in gendered spaces that are associated with women. The Huis' Islamic revival movements, similar to piety movements in other countries, emerge at the intersection of the state and society. Hui women's practices of reviving Islam emphasize visuality that connects Islam and aesthetics. The religious-based aesthetics for fashion and the urban built environment manifests in ideal gender roles defined in Islamic contexts. The use of aesthetics also allows Hui Muslims to present Islamic revival as apolitical and hence non-threatening to the Chinese state. The Huis' use of non-Chinese references, especially China's crucial connections in the Muslim world, shows that Chinese diplomacy such as the Belt and Road Initiatives is played out differently on the ground. The dissertation engages a conversation between research in feminist geography and the politics of aesthetics with a focus on the geopolitics of transnational urban space.

موضوع مستند نشده

Geographic information science

موضوع مستند نشده

Geography

موضوع مستند نشده

Religion

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Oakes, Timothy

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Yang, Yang

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y