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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 […]

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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 […]

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From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (Part 10)

The Present

Three Christians walk into Hui restaurants. They all introduce themselves as disciples of Isa (尔撒的门徒, Ersa de mentu, a contextualized alternative to the term “Christian”). The first is in Beijing. The Christian is there to meet a Hui university student, but she changes the subject away from religion at every opportunity. She is secularized and […]

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From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (2)

Hui Origins (AD 651–1270)

This is the second part in 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. Part 1 provided a series overview. We will now summarize the formation of the Hui as a people over time. The course presents Hui […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (7)

Hui and the Cultural Revolution

This article discusses the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) and key events in the decade leading up to it. It 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 are the Hui so anxious, even paranoid, about halal food? […]

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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?

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From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (8)

Hui in a Globalizing China (Since 1978)

[…] qualities, not simply label them as “Hui” and expect them to conform to our expectations of what that means. The four quadrants can help us navigate which topics might interest our Hui friend, what questions to ask them, and how we might present the gospel in such a way that they agree it really […]

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From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (Part 9)

The First Missionaries to China’s Hui

[…] Faced with numerous obstacles, his Bible translation and Chinese dictionaries were finished at night, in secret, while he held down a day job with the East India Company. He set a precedent for creative access, identity management, and even working remotely, over 200 years ago. The incubation period of Hui missions began with CIM […]