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Violence, the State, and a Chinese Muslim Ritual Remembrance

Gillette, Maris·2008·The Journal of Asian Studies
DOI 10.1017/s002191180800123x
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This article discusses how contemporary Chinese Muslims in the city of Xi'an remember a massive conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims that devastated northwest China in the Tongzhi period (1862–74) of the Qing dynasty. Every year on the seventeenth day of the fifth lunar month, local Hui hold a series of mourning rituals for the Muslims who died at that time. They recount stories about these events during the ritual and in other settings. The author uses Bakhtin's concept of “social heteroglossia” to explore the discursive features of three accounts of the violence, arguing that Xi'an Hui memories of this past show the influence of state-sponsored ethnic policies, a religious model of Hui identity, and a less formally articulated collective sentiment (what Raymond Williams calls a “structure of feeling”) based on shared experience. The author discusses how these discourses are disseminated and which factors generate the “structure of feeling” that colors contemporary Muslim accounts of the Tongzhi period, and reflects on the consequences of Xi'an Hui internalization of the state's framework for ethnic identity.

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Authors
Gillette, M.
Affiliations
Haverford College (US)
Corresponding author
Gillette, Maris
ORCID
Gillette, Maris
Venue
The Journal of Asian Studies
Publisher
Duke University Press
Published
2008-07-23
Volume
67
Issue
03
ISSN
  • 0021-9118 (ISSN-L)
  • 1752-0401
DOI
10.1017/s002191180800123x
OpenAlex
W2043496103
Cited by
13
References
28
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1
FWCI
1.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
The Journal of Asian Studies (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Memory, violence, and history
Keywords
Hui people, Xi'an, collective memory, mourning rituals, Bakhtin, structure of feeling, ethnic identity, Qing dynasty, ethnic violence, oral narrative, religious identity

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Gillette, M. (2008). Violence, the State, and a Chinese Muslim Ritual Remembrance. The Journal of Asian Studies. https://doi.org/10.1017/s002191180800123x