Book Title

Hui Muslims in the Shaping of Modern China: Education, Frontier Politics, and Nation-State

Editor

Bin Chen (Department of Chinese History and Culture)

Publisher

Routledge

Year of Publication

2025

ISBN

9781032875255

Introduction

Chen examines the Chinese Nationalist government's distinctive support for private Muslim teachers schools between the 1920s and 1940s, and explores the complex relationship between these institutions and the Chinese state during the Republican period.

In 1933, the government issued the Teachers Schools Regulations, mandating that all teachers schools be state-run. However, the Nationalists viewed private Muslim teachers schools as valuable allies in their efforts to assert influence in China’s Muslim-dominated northwestern frontier region and deliberately refrained from enforcing the 1933 Teachers Schools Regulations on them. Instead, the government applied the 1933 Amended Private Schools Regulations, which did not specifically address teachers schools, to govern Muslim teachers schools. By charting the evolving dynamics between the Nationalist state and Chinese Hui Muslims, this book reevaluates the Hui Muslims’ role in shaping modern China.

Offering crucial context on the role of Islam in modern China, this book is a valuable resource for scholars and students of Chinese history, as well as for policymakers and journalists interested in religion in China.

Content

Prologue: One Sows and Another Reaps
Introduction: Muslim Teachers Schools and China’s Frontier Politics
1. Law in Republican China, Muslim Warlords, and the Rise of Muslim Teachers Schools in the 1920s and 1930s
2. The Outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japan and New Opportunities for the Muslim Teachers Schools, 1937 to 1940
3. Changing Times and the Nationalization of the Muslim Teachers Schools, 1940 to 1941
4. Challenges and Paradoxes after Nationalization, 1941 to 1949
Epilogue and Long-Term Legacy of Muslim Teachers Schools

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