1st Edition
Ethnicity and Urban Life in China A Comparative Study of Hui Muslims and Han Chinese
By Xiaowei Zang
Copyright 2007
208 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This much-needed work on ethnicity in Asia offers a major sociological analysis of Hui Muslims in contemporary China. Using both qualitative and quantitative data derived from fieldwork in Lanzhou between March 2001 and July 2004, it looks at the contrast between the urban life of the Han people, the ethnic majority in the city of Lanzhou, and the Hui people, the largest ethnic minority in the... Read more
1. New Wine, Old Bottle 2. Neighbors United, Neighbors Divided 3. Sworn Brotherhood or Modern Friendship 4. A Lonely Crowd or a Network Society? 5. Finding a Mate in a Metropolis 6. Who Marries Whom? 7. 'Match Door' Marriages 8. Family Behavior 9. Ethnicity and Urban Life in China
Biography
Xiaowei Zang is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong.
‘This topic has been studied primarily by anthropologists examining small populations, with little representative testing of ethnic difference by other social scientists. Xiaowei Zhang has been an important exception, studying ethnicity in relation to family and neighbourhood structures, employment, stratification and education.’ - Jonathan N. Lipman and Matthew McKeever, The China Journal, no. 60
