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Let Confucianism and Islam work together: bargaining for a distinct Muslim identity in local propaganda literature / Wroldsen, Kim Jarle

Wroldsen, Kim Jarle	Journal Article
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In recent years, propaganda authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China have orchestrated the production of posters, banners, books, news reports, and literary magazines calling for the Sinicisation of Islam. What role is played by local Hui (Chinese Muslim) writers in the production of this propaganda? This article is based on a close reading of propaganda literature from a local county between 2010 and 2017. I show that Hui writers bargain for the preservation Hui ideological and cultural particularities. While contributing to the propaganda apparatus, they bargain to find a balance between the national call for the Sinicisation of religion and their own goal of the preservation of a Hui identity distinct from Han-Chinese culture. They argue that Sinicisation in the sense of value integration benefits the propaganda goals of the Chinese Party-State in a way that is not possible with Sinicisation in the sense of cultural and ideological assimilation.

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China ; Xinjiang ; Literature ; Identity ; Propaganda ; Minzu ;
Hui ; Sinicisation

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New Wine in Old Bottles: Sinicisation and State Regulation of Religion in China / Chang, Kuei-min

Chang, Kuei-min	Journal Article
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This paper discusses Xi Jinping’s policy of religious sinicisation (zhongguohua 中国化) and the subsequent revision of the Regulations on Religious Affairs. I argue that Xi’s fear of foreign influence has driven the direction of recent changes in religious policy in favour of indigenous or indigenised religions. I show that the effort to sinicise religions and the consequent strengthening of the existing regulatory framework risks exacerbating the challenges that the Xi regime seeks to confront in the first place.

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China ; United Front ; Xi Jinping ; Sinicisation ; Zhongguohua ; Regulations on Religious Affairs ;
State-religion Relations ; Selective Religious Toleration

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What If Social Science Methods Had No Homeland? : Detour via a Sociohistory of the Chinese State through Its Archives Issues in Social Science Debate in Xi Jinping’s China / Boucher, Aurélien

Boucher, Aurélien	Journal Article
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This article studies the methods used by Chinese and foreign social science researchers in their analysis of the contents of the state and Party administration archives of the People’s Republic of China. Through the study of this particular subject, I demonstrate that the “tactics” used in the study of contemporary Chinese society may also be found in the study of totalitarian societies and to a lesser extent, in the study of modern bureaucracies. This detour via the method leads us to reconsider the question of the need for a “Sinicisation of the social sciences.” More specifically, I call into question the idea that the heuristic nature of a method is necessarily adversely affected once past the frontier.

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Social Science ; Archives ; Methods ; Sinicisation

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