Islam and China's Hong Kong Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the New Silk Road Routledge Contemporary China Series
Auteur : Ho Wai-Yip
Hong Kong is a global city-state under the sovereignty of the People?s Republic of China, and is home to around 250,000 Muslims practicing Islam. However existing studies of the Muslim-majority communities in Asia and the Northwest China largely ignore the Muslim community in Hong Kong. Islam and China?s Hong Kong skillfully fills this gap, and investigates how ethnic and Chinese-speaking Muslims negotiate their identities and the increasing public attention to Islam in Hong Kong.
Examining a range of issues and challenges facing Muslims in Hong Kong, this book focuses on the three different diasporic Muslim communities and reveals the city-state?s triple Islamic heritage and distinctive Islamic culture. It begins with the transition from the colonial to the post-colonial era, and explores how this has impacted on the experiences of the Muslim diaspora, and the ways this shift has compelled the community to adapt to Chinese nationalism whilst forging greater links with the Gulf. Then with reference to the rise of new media and technology, the book examines the heightened presence of Islam in the Chinese public sphere, alongside the emergence of Chinese Islamic websites which have sought to balance transnational Muslim solidarity and sensitivity towards Chinese government?s concern of external extremism. Finally, it concludes by investigating Hong Kong?s growing awareness of the Muslim minorities? demands for Islamic religious education, and how this links with the city-state?s aspiration to become the new gateway for Islamic finance. Indeed, Wai Yip Ho posits that Hong Kong is now shifting from its role as the broker that bridged East and West during the Cold War, to that of a new meditator between China and the Middle East.
Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, this book thoughtfully charts a new area of inquiry, and as such will be welcomed by students and scholars of Chinese studies, Islamic studies, Asian studies and ethnicity studies.
1. Locating Islam in China’s Hong Kong 2. Hong Kong’s Tripartite Islamic Traditions Part I: New Master, Postcolonial Struggle 3. Forging Identity from Britain to China: Struggle for Recognition 4. Forced Diaspora between East and West: Story of Migration Part II: New Media, Transnational Politics 5. Global Ummah, Local Protest: Danish Cartoon Affair in the Chinese Context 6. Going Digital, Facing Public: Cyber-Islamic Environment in the Chinese Language Part III: New Mandate, Reorienting Agenda 7. Educating a New Generation: Teaching Islamic Civilization 8. Envisioning a New Gateway: Developing Islamic Finance 9. Muhammad as a Merchant, Islam as a Middle Path: Balancing Patriotism and Piety in the New Silk Road
Wai-Yip Ho is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Institute of Education.
Date de parution : 08-2015
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 04-2013
Ouvrage de 240 p.
15.6x23.4 cm
Thème d’Islam and China's Hong Kong :
Mots-clés :
Islam, Ethnic Identity, Hong Kong, HKSAR, Chinese Muslims, Muslim World, Harmonious Society, Traditional Chinese Version, Chinese Government, Hui Muslims, China's Muslims, Ethnic Muslims, Islamic Finance, Mainland China, China, HKSAR Government, Southeast Asian Muslims, Danish Cartoon Controversy, Subcontinent Muslim, South Asian Muslims, Indian Muslim Association, Cyber Islamic Environments, Chinese Hui Muslims, Indonesian Domestic Helpers, Chinese Islamic, Chinese Internet Culture, Danish Cartoons, Regional Educational Hub