Islam and China's Hong Kong

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'Wai Yip Ho skilfully presents a wealth of information on a subject that is little-known but will become increasingly important. Reviewing the many aspects of Muslim life in Hong Kong, he provides a rich and sensitive ethnography of the South Asian, Southeast Asian and Chinese Hui communities there. In a marvellously grounded way, Islam and China's Hong Kong is instructive of the ways in which traditional institutions such as Islamic schooling and new media such as Islamic websites adapt to local realities while remaining attached to broader pan-Islamic concerns. For anyone interested in modern Islam or Asia, this work is essential for considering a future where Hong Kong's Muslim minority can serve as a valuable interlocutor between the Asian superpower and the Muslim world.' - James Piscatori, Professor of International Relations, Head of the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, Co-author of Muslim Politics

'This book tells a fascinating story of the historical emergence of Islam in Hong Kong and how this Hong Kong Islam is transforming itself into a new Islam hub linking Middle East and Far East. Researchers and students who are interested in Hong Kong, China, Islamic Studies, and Globalization should find this book indispensable." - Alvin Y. So, Chair Professor of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Co-editor of Handbook of Contemporary China

'Wai-Yip Ho's Islam and China's Hong Kong, based on more than a decade of ongoing research among Hong Kong's three major Muslim groups (Hui immigrants from other regions of China, South Asians originally settled by the British, and more recent Indonesian women domestic workers), masterfully combines illuminating ethnographic insights into the history and cultural particularities of each group with his guiding focus on those wider Chinese and global developments-at once economic, political, and cultural-that are distinctively shaping the lives of these communities today. His insightful, multi-faceted analysis highlights the ongoing role of Hong Kong as a unique bridge between China and wider global developments (such as Middle Eastern finance, or massive economic emigration), and as a revealing test-case for tackling the political and social challenges of increasingly multi-cultural polities, while memorably portraying the creative individual and local communal responses of Hong Kong's Muslims to those broader transformations.' - James W. Morris, Professor of Islamic Studies, Boston College, Author of Orientations: Islamic Thought in a World Civilisation

"Islam and China's Hong Kong is an academic text with a great many citations, statistics and records of interviews." - Peter Gordon; The Asian Review of Books 2013.