Islamic Frontiers of China: Peoples of the Silk Road

by , Adel Awni Dajani, How Man Wong, et al.

There are over twenty million Muslims in China today. From the mountainous borders with Afghanistan to the tropical island of Hainan, the ethnicities and cultures of China's Muslims are as diverse as China herself. They come from at least ten different ethnic groups, including the Persianate Tajiks in the Pamir Mountains, Kirgiz eagle hunters in the west, and the Chinese speaking Hui living in Canton. In recent years the world's attention has been...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848857020
• ISBN13: 9781848857025
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 2.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.8" x 11.8"