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Papers by Dru Gladney
The China Quarterly, 2003
Many of the challenges China's Muslims confront remain the same as they have for the last 1,4... more Many of the challenges China's Muslims confront remain the same as they have for the last 1,400 years of continuous interaction with Chinese society, but some are new as a result of China's transformed and increasingly globalized society, and especially since the watershed events of the 11 September terrorist attacks and the subsequent “war on terrorism.” Muslims in China live as minority communities, but many such communities have survived in rather inhospitable circumstances for over a millennium. This article examines Islam and Muslim minority identity in China, not only because it is where this author has conducted most of his research, but also because with the largest Muslim minority in East Asia, China's Muslims are clearly the most threatened in terms of self-preservation and Islamic identity. I argue that successful Muslim accommodation to minority status in China can be seen to be a measure of the extent to which Muslim groups allow the reconciliation of the di...
Current History a Journal of Contemporary World Affairs, 2002
Not unlike Hong Kong (which under the one-country, two-systems formula continues to fly its own f... more Not unlike Hong Kong (which under the one-country, two-systems formula continues to fly its own flag), the unique situation in Xinjiang calls for dramatic and creative solutions. The future of this region, which the American sinologist Owen Lattimore once called the ‘pivot of Asia,’ depends on it.
Current History a Journal of Contemporary World Affairs, 1993
The New Cambridge History of Islam, 2010
Journal Institute of Muslim Minority …, 1989
... University of Washington, 1955; Dru C. Gladney "Ethno-religious Factionalism and the Pan... more ... University of Washington, 1955; Dru C. Gladney "Ethno-religious Factionalism and the PanthayMuslim Rebellion in Yunnan, 1855-1873", in Modern China, forthcoming; Jonathan Lipman, "Ethnicity and Economics: The Tibetan-Muslim Han Trading Network in Northwest China ...
History and Anthropology, 1996
... My study in Turkey was designed to try to understand the construction of this "w... more ... My study in Turkey was designed to try to understand the construction of this "whiteness" by looking at sub-Turkic ethnicity, just as I questioned the construction of "Han-ness" in China through looking at the construction of minority identity among the Hui and other minorities (see ...
Identity conflicts: can violence be regulated?, 2007
... 2 percent in China, 1 percent in Japan, and less than I percent in Korea), the Muslim ... Inc... more ... 2 percent in China, 1 percent in Japan, and less than I percent in Korea), the Muslim ... Increasing Muslim political activism on a national scale and rapid state re-sponses to such ... Cyber-Separatism, Islam, and the State in China 99 most of the Muslims' demands, condemning the ...
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1994
China is now becoming recognized as a nation with a significant Muslim population. With nearly 18... more China is now becoming recognized as a nation with a significant Muslim population. With nearly 18 million Muslims (the recent 1990 census reported 17.9 million, with many Muslims still unaccounted for or refusing to register as members of the primarily Muslim nationalities), China ranks among the most populous Muslim nations. And, although its Muslim population is miniscule when compared with its total population (Muslims account for less than 2% of China's 1.1 billion), or insignificant when one looks at the vast Muslim populations in other Asian nations, such as Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, nevertheless, this article argues that the Muslims of China play an important role disproportionate to their numbers in influencing China's domestic and international politics.
Central Asian Survey, 1990
Consuming Ethnicity and Nationalism
How are nations "made"? This paper suggests that nations, and the peoples that compose ... more How are nations "made"? This paper suggests that nations, and the peoples that compose them, are made by fbllowing established paths of representation. As Thongchai Winichaku1 (l994: 15) has eloquently argued, nations become mapped through the imposition of borders, boundaries, and categories of configuration upon previously borderless, unbounded, or uncategorized regions, peoples, and spaces. In this paperI argue that it is through "path dependence" that nationhood is created by the promotion of stereotypical representations of nations and nationalities perpetuated through national censuses, museums, fblklore, and the interaction of subject peoples and the states that legislate their identity. As Takashi Fojitani (1993: IOI) has argued, promulgation of the accepted "folklore of a regime" becomes an accepted hermeneutic by which contested and convoluted tales of history and society become master narratives among several competing versions. This paper wi...
Making Religion, Making the State
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales
RésuméL’article examine les relations entre la Chine et l’Asie centrale à la lumière de la longue... more RésuméL’article examine les relations entre la Chine et l’Asie centrale à la lumière de la longue histoire des échanges intercontinentaux. Quelques aspects de ces relations historiques perdurent jusqu’à nos jours : la transnationalisation (due tout à la fois à l’essor de la route de la Soie et à l’unification monghole), l’islamisation (touchant aux transformations économiques affectant à la fois la Chine et l’Asie centrale) et l’ethnicisation des identités locales (stimulées par les politiques successives de la Russie impériale, des Soviets et de la Chine communiste).
Current History a Journal of Contemporary World Affairs, 1997
Chinese focus on Uyghur ethnic aspirations, rather than Islam, could stabilize the troubled region
Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales, Sep 1, 2004
Les soirees et les nuits des Lavallois du XVIII e siecle sont souvent troublees par des bandes de... more Les soirees et les nuits des Lavallois du XVIII e siecle sont souvent troublees par des bandes de « coureurs de nuit ». L'examen des archives de justice permet de preciser leur identite, les types de jeux et de violences qu'ils affectionnent et qui peuvent souvent etre interpretees comme un defi a l'ordre social. La specificite de cette delinquance tiendrait donc non seulement a la nature des actions commises mais aussi aux intentions des acteurs et au regard que portent sur eux les adultes en general et les magistrats en particulier; elle temoigne de la place de la jeunesse dans la societe. The evenings and the nights to inhabitants of Laval during the xvnte century are often disturbed by parties of « coureurs de nuit ». The examination of the records of justice permit to specify their identity, the types of their plays and the violence they like ; they can often be interpreted like a challenge with the social order. The specificity of this delinquency can be connect with the nature of their actions and also with the intentions of the actors and with the way adults and magistrates look at them ; it shows the place of youth in the society.
The China Quarterly, 2003
Many of the challenges China's Muslims confront remain the same as they have for the last 1,4... more Many of the challenges China's Muslims confront remain the same as they have for the last 1,400 years of continuous interaction with Chinese society, but some are new as a result of China's transformed and increasingly globalized society, and especially since the watershed events of the 11 September terrorist attacks and the subsequent “war on terrorism.” Muslims in China live as minority communities, but many such communities have survived in rather inhospitable circumstances for over a millennium. This article examines Islam and Muslim minority identity in China, not only because it is where this author has conducted most of his research, but also because with the largest Muslim minority in East Asia, China's Muslims are clearly the most threatened in terms of self-preservation and Islamic identity. I argue that successful Muslim accommodation to minority status in China can be seen to be a measure of the extent to which Muslim groups allow the reconciliation of the di...
Current History a Journal of Contemporary World Affairs, 2002
Not unlike Hong Kong (which under the one-country, two-systems formula continues to fly its own f... more Not unlike Hong Kong (which under the one-country, two-systems formula continues to fly its own flag), the unique situation in Xinjiang calls for dramatic and creative solutions. The future of this region, which the American sinologist Owen Lattimore once called the ‘pivot of Asia,’ depends on it.
Current History a Journal of Contemporary World Affairs, 1993
The New Cambridge History of Islam, 2010
Journal Institute of Muslim Minority …, 1989
... University of Washington, 1955; Dru C. Gladney "Ethno-religious Factionalism and the Pan... more ... University of Washington, 1955; Dru C. Gladney "Ethno-religious Factionalism and the PanthayMuslim Rebellion in Yunnan, 1855-1873", in Modern China, forthcoming; Jonathan Lipman, "Ethnicity and Economics: The Tibetan-Muslim Han Trading Network in Northwest China ...
History and Anthropology, 1996
... My study in Turkey was designed to try to understand the construction of this "w... more ... My study in Turkey was designed to try to understand the construction of this "whiteness" by looking at sub-Turkic ethnicity, just as I questioned the construction of "Han-ness" in China through looking at the construction of minority identity among the Hui and other minorities (see ...
Identity conflicts: can violence be regulated?, 2007
... 2 percent in China, 1 percent in Japan, and less than I percent in Korea), the Muslim ... Inc... more ... 2 percent in China, 1 percent in Japan, and less than I percent in Korea), the Muslim ... Increasing Muslim political activism on a national scale and rapid state re-sponses to such ... Cyber-Separatism, Islam, and the State in China 99 most of the Muslims' demands, condemning the ...
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1994
China is now becoming recognized as a nation with a significant Muslim population. With nearly 18... more China is now becoming recognized as a nation with a significant Muslim population. With nearly 18 million Muslims (the recent 1990 census reported 17.9 million, with many Muslims still unaccounted for or refusing to register as members of the primarily Muslim nationalities), China ranks among the most populous Muslim nations. And, although its Muslim population is miniscule when compared with its total population (Muslims account for less than 2% of China's 1.1 billion), or insignificant when one looks at the vast Muslim populations in other Asian nations, such as Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, nevertheless, this article argues that the Muslims of China play an important role disproportionate to their numbers in influencing China's domestic and international politics.
Central Asian Survey, 1990
Consuming Ethnicity and Nationalism
How are nations "made"? This paper suggests that nations, and the peoples that compose ... more How are nations "made"? This paper suggests that nations, and the peoples that compose them, are made by fbllowing established paths of representation. As Thongchai Winichaku1 (l994: 15) has eloquently argued, nations become mapped through the imposition of borders, boundaries, and categories of configuration upon previously borderless, unbounded, or uncategorized regions, peoples, and spaces. In this paperI argue that it is through "path dependence" that nationhood is created by the promotion of stereotypical representations of nations and nationalities perpetuated through national censuses, museums, fblklore, and the interaction of subject peoples and the states that legislate their identity. As Takashi Fojitani (1993: IOI) has argued, promulgation of the accepted "folklore of a regime" becomes an accepted hermeneutic by which contested and convoluted tales of history and society become master narratives among several competing versions. This paper wi...
Making Religion, Making the State
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales
RésuméL’article examine les relations entre la Chine et l’Asie centrale à la lumière de la longue... more RésuméL’article examine les relations entre la Chine et l’Asie centrale à la lumière de la longue histoire des échanges intercontinentaux. Quelques aspects de ces relations historiques perdurent jusqu’à nos jours : la transnationalisation (due tout à la fois à l’essor de la route de la Soie et à l’unification monghole), l’islamisation (touchant aux transformations économiques affectant à la fois la Chine et l’Asie centrale) et l’ethnicisation des identités locales (stimulées par les politiques successives de la Russie impériale, des Soviets et de la Chine communiste).
Current History a Journal of Contemporary World Affairs, 1997
Chinese focus on Uyghur ethnic aspirations, rather than Islam, could stabilize the troubled region
Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales, Sep 1, 2004
Les soirees et les nuits des Lavallois du XVIII e siecle sont souvent troublees par des bandes de... more Les soirees et les nuits des Lavallois du XVIII e siecle sont souvent troublees par des bandes de « coureurs de nuit ». L'examen des archives de justice permet de preciser leur identite, les types de jeux et de violences qu'ils affectionnent et qui peuvent souvent etre interpretees comme un defi a l'ordre social. La specificite de cette delinquance tiendrait donc non seulement a la nature des actions commises mais aussi aux intentions des acteurs et au regard que portent sur eux les adultes en general et les magistrats en particulier; elle temoigne de la place de la jeunesse dans la societe. The evenings and the nights to inhabitants of Laval during the xvnte century are often disturbed by parties of « coureurs de nuit ». The examination of the records of justice permit to specify their identity, the types of their plays and the violence they like ; they can often be interpreted like a challenge with the social order. The specificity of this delinquency can be connect with the nature of their actions and also with the intentions of the actors and with the way adults and magistrates look at them ; it shows the place of youth in the society.