Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University cohosted the International Workshop on Chinese Muslims entitled “Redrawing and Straddling Borders: Chinese Muslims in Trans-national Fields and Multi-linguistic Literatures.”
This workshop was held under the joint auspices of Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, and Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University, and scheduled as follows.
【Date and Venue】
Date: 1-2 December 2018
Venue: Institute for Research in Humanities Main Building 人文科学研究所本館 (4F Conference Room), Research Bldg. No. 4, Kyoto University
【Language】 English
【Program】
<December 1st> Redrawing Boundaries between “Us” and “Others” Responding to Historical Backgrounds
10:30 -11:00 Registration and Coffee
11:00-11:30 Opening NAKANISHI Tatsuya (Kyoto University) and WANG-KANDA Liulan (Doshisha University) Self-Introduction of Participants [Chinese Muslims’ Identity-Shift Responding to Historical Backgrounds]
11:30-12:30 NAKANISHI Tatsuya (Kyoto University) Family, Umma, and Nation: Multilayered and Dynamic Identities of Chinese Muslims
Lunch12:30-14:00
14:00-15:00 ZHAO Yuanhao 趙元昊 (Institute of Ethnic Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Boundaries of Hui: About Wartime Ethnic “Identity” [Religious Boundaries for Chinese Muslims]
15:10-16:10 Aaron GLASSERMAN (Columbia University) Way of Heaven, Way of Man: Boundaries of the Shari’a in Qing and Republican China
16:20-17:20 Suchart SETTHAMALINEE (Payap University) Different Religious Practices and “Others” in Northern Thailand
18:30- Welcome Dinner
<December 2nd>
Straddling Spatial, Cultural, or Ethnic Boundaries
8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee
[Chinese Muslims’ Bridging a gap between Chinese and Other Cultures]
9:00-10:00 Dror WEIL (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) Transcending Linguistic Boundaries in Late Imperial China – The Case of Mirṣād al-‘ibād
10:10-11:10 Diana WONG (Universiti Sains Malaysia) Overseas Hui Entrepreneurs and the Globalisation of Qingzhen Ethnic Food: A Case Study of Malaysia
[Chinese Muslims and Other Chinese Minorities]
11:20-12:20 Marie-Paule HILLE (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) Legacy, Sociability, Moving Borders: an Ethnography of Trade Relationship between Chinese Muslims and Tibetans in Amdo
12:20-13:50 Lunch
13:50-14:50 WANG Jianxin 王建新 (Lanzhou University) Similarities and Differences between the Hui and the Uyghur: An Approach toward the Multiculturalism of Muslim Minorities in China
[Chinese Muslim Diaspora]
15:00-16:00 WANG-KANDA Liulan (Doshisha University) Border-crossing, Belonging and Family networks among Chinese Muslim Diaspora in Northern Thailand
16:10-17:10 MA Hailong 馬海龍 (Qinghai Nationalities University) At Home in Diaspora: the Chinese Hui Migrants in Malaysia
17:20-17:50 Concluding Discussion