The Traveling Minzu: Uyghur Muslim Migration and the Negotiation of Identities

ISBN-13: 9781032195209 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 212 str.

Mei Ding

Opis

Based on Uyghur business migrants’ everyday experiences, this book investigates how individuals embody and deploy minzu, one of the fundamental concepts in Chinese political and socio-economic discourses after 1949 in China and Australia.

Spis treści

1. Minzu: a Key Concept in Uyghur Migration, 2. Uyghur Restaurants: Social Space and Internal Diversity, 3. Food and Body in China’s Islamophobia, 4. Multiculturalism and State Kinship, 5. Citizenship between China and Australia, 6. Becoming Australian Uyghurs

O autorze

Mei Ding is an assistant professor at the School of Social Development and Public Policy in Fudan University, China. She is a social anthropologist with research interests in China’s ethnic minorities, including Muslim small and medium businesses. Her current focus is on ethnicity and medical anthropology. Her recent publications includes “Cultural Intimacy in Ethnicity” (Journal of Contemporary China, 2020) and “Security matters in Marriage” (Central Asian Survey, 2018).