Abstract:
The recent events in the Xinjiang region of China – the construction of camps, terrible human rights violations, torture and sterilizations – at the domestic level and the re-establishment of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan at the global level have focused attention on Islamic studies in China. Scholars in both Chinese and Western academics are becoming increasingly interested in China’s treatment of Islam. James D. Frankel’s Islam in China provides both an historical and a present viewpoint on the subject. This book is an empathic and very informative study for people seeking to grasp the Islam–China link and the Xinjiang humanitarian situation. Also discussed is how Islam entered the Chinese psyche and area of influence nearly as soon as it erupted from the sands of the Middle East in the seventh century CE.