About the author
Maris Boyd Gillette is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College.
Between Mecca and Beijing examines how a community of urban Chinese Muslims uses consumption to position its members more favorably within the Chinese government's official paradigm for development. Residents of the old Muslim district in the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an belong to an official minority (the Hui nationality) that has been classified by the state as "backward" in comparison to China's majority (Han) population. Though these Hui urbanites, like the vast majority of Chinese citizens, accept the assumptions about social evolution upon which such labels are based, they actively reject the official characterization of themselves as less civilized and modern than the Han majority.
By selectively consuming goods and adopting fashions they regard as modern and non-Chinese—which include commodities and styles from both the West and the Muslim world—these Chinese Muslims seek to demonstrate that they are capable of modernizing without the guidance or assistance of the state. In so doing, they challenge one of the fundamental roles the Chinese Communist government has claimed for itself, that of guide and purveyor of modernity. Through a detailed study of the daily life—eating habits, dress styles, housing, marriage and death rituals, religious practices, education, family organization—of the Hui inhabitants of Xi'an, the author explores the effects of a state-sponsored ideology of progress on an urban Chinese Muslim neighborhood.
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閱於2006-2009
评分這本書解釋了modernization 和 consumerism之間的微妙關係。並通過清真食物為切入口,展現了在主流社會中西安回族的生存狀況。A good reference to explore the so-called CHINESE-NESS
评分补标,这好像是我读的第一本民族志。然而几年过去N次路过西安的火车站和机场,却从没进过城。
评分西安回族; an anthropological study; not too overtly politicized
评分补标,这好像是我读的第一本民族志。然而几年过去N次路过西安的火车站和机场,却从没进过城。
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