From Religion to Revolution…and Nationalism

Hui Identity and Historical Materialism in the Work of Jamāl al-Dīn Bai Shouyi and Beyond

Authors

  • Ady VAN DEN STOCK Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2019.7.1.173-199

Keywords:

Islam in modern China, historical materialism, Bai Shouyi, ethnicity, religion, nationalism

Abstract

The work of the Marxist historian Jamāl al-Dīn Bai Shouyi (1909–2000), a member of the Chinese Muslim Hui ethnic group, offers a window into the close and complex relation between the contested categories of politics, religion, and ethnicity in modern Chinese intellectual history, particularly with respect to the historical development of Chinese Muslim identity in its encounter with Marxist historical materialism. In this article, I provide a limited case study of this broader problematic by analysing Bai’s writings on Hui identity. In doing so, I attempt to contextualise his arguments with reference to the changing status of religion in contemporary Chinese Marxist discourse, and reflect on the entanglement of nationalism, religion, and ethnopolitics in modern China.

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Published

31.01.2019

How to Cite

VAN DEN STOCK, A. (2019). From Religion to Revolution…and Nationalism: Hui Identity and Historical Materialism in the Work of Jamāl al-Dīn Bai Shouyi and Beyond. Asian Studies, 7(1), 173–199. https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2019.7.1.173-199

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2019): From Hegel to Mao and Beyond: the Long March of Sinicizing Marxism

Section

Theory and Ideology

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