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From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (3)
Mass Migration under the Khan (AD1271–1367)
This article belongs to the series “From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom”—which is drawn from the leading ethnographic course helping Christians better understand China’s Hui Muslims. How did the Hui become China’s second largest and most widely dispersed minority? Why do they simultaneously act superior and inferior to the Han majority? We […]
From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (4)
Forced Integration (AD 1368–1644)
This article belongs to the series “From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom”—which is drawn from the leading ethnographic course helping Christians better understand China’s Hui Muslims. Why do Hui and other predominantly Muslim minzu (民族, people groups) practice endogamy? If it is to prevent religious syncretism, it doesn’t appear to have worked. […]
From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (Part 9)
The First Missionaries to China’s Hui
[…] specialized Hui vocabulary (回话, huihua) laid the foundation for a contextualized Hui translation of the Bible in Chinese, more than half a century later. Yet, despite Harris’s significant contributions to mission strategy, his greatest legacy was his life of suffering. George and Winnifred Harris buried two children in China. During the Japanese invasion, resources […]
From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (2)
Hui Origins (AD 651–1270)
[…] Uprisings (AD 1645–1912) Bandits and Warlords (AD 1913–1949) Communist China (AD 1949–1977) Reforms and Globalization (AD 1978–present) As we will see, each stage of Hui history has significant implications for gospel ministry among the Hui because each stage has shaped the Hui people’s foundational worldview. Fanke Come to Town (AD 651–1270) Silk Road, Muslim […]
From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (5)
Hui Uprisings (AD 1645–1912)
This article belongs to the series “From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom”—which is drawn from the leading ethnographic course helping Christians better understand China’s Hui Muslims. When I was a baby, whenever I wouldn’t stop crying, my mother would say to me sternly, ‘Don’t cry anymore! If the Hezhou Muslims hear you, they’ll […]
From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (6)
From Warlords to Communists (1913–1949 and Beyond)
This article belongs to the series “From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom”—which is drawn from the leading ethnographic course helping Christians better understand China’s Hui Muslims. If the Hui story ended with the fall of the Qing, we would be looking at a very different China. Hui and Han Chinese still don’t intermarry […]
From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (7)
Hui and the Cultural Revolution
[…] water? “How could they not be?” you may ask. “Well,” comes the reply, “a pig could have fallen into the well!” Then there are suspicions about fake signage and pork-eating con artists donning white caps and serving food with unwashed hands. These worries are not merely results of some pan-Islamic halal-certification fundraising venture. All […]
From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom
The Hui, an Introduction
Who are the Hui Muslims of China? Where did they come from, what are they like, and how are they being reached with the gospel of Jesus Christ?
From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (8)
Hui in a Globalizing China (Since 1978)
The Hui responded to China’s opening up in different ways. Some became secularized, others used their freedom to become more religious. Some embraced globalization while others kept their hearts and minds close to home.
From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (Part 10)
The Present
What we Christians really want to know is: how can we share the gospel with such a diverse group? If saying the same, short phrase gets you free food in one place and the cold shoulder in another, how can we even dream of a Hui church?