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Muslim Chinese

Muslim Chinese. Language learning series for advanced students pictures from http:// islaminchina.wordpress.com /. Funded by. UH National Foreign Language Resource Center UH National Resource Center for East Asian Studies Confucius Institute at UHM. Plan: .

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Muslim Chinese

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  1. Muslim Chinese Language learning series for advanced students pictures from http://islaminchina.wordpress.com/

  2. Funded by • UH National Foreign Language Resource Center • UH National Resource Center for East Asian Studies • Confucius Institute at UHM

  3. Plan: • Travel to points along China’s “Quran Belt” and film 6-10 interviews with Chinese Muslims, intercut the interviews with b-roll footage of the setting and community, and edit into 10- to 15-minute segments to upload to the CI-UHM website (linked to NFLRC site). • Develop and upload downloadable lessons in pdf format to accompany the segments.

  4. Projected dates • Shoot: Mid- to late- May to early June; 2-3 weeks, depending on how long we can stretch out our budget • Editing and development of lessons: Fall, 2011, and Spring, 2012 • Upload by the end of Spring semester, 2012

  5. The route: Beijing: Central Nationalities U; Niu Street mosque… Train to Kaifeng (Henan), Dunhuang (Gansu), [stop in Ningxia, Gansu] and Urumqi (Xinjiang)… Buses within Xinjiang to Turfan, Kashgar… Minivan within each city Fly back to Beijing

  6. The interviewer: LI Jinzhao Assistant professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University PhD 2005, American Studies, UHM Specialist in ethnic identity issues

  7. The interview questions: • Who are the Chinese Muslims? • Formation of Muslim identity • How did you learn to be Muslim, through parents, kinship, schools, community? • When did you first become aware of your Muslim identity? • Tell me about the neighborhood you grew up in. • Tell me about the school you attended. • Who were your closest friends? • Current lifestyle and current identity • Compared to your childhood experience, is your life now more or less “Muslim”? • What is your everyday life like now? • What do you experience Muslim culture and tradition in everyday practice? • What do you think about? • Whom do you date? • What does it mean to be a Muslim? • How many kinds of Muslims have you met in China? • What does it mean to be a Muslim in China? • How do non-Muslim Chinese perceive you? • Do you like/dislike how you are perceived? • How have these perceptions changed over time? • How active are you in your Muslim communities? • Thinking about the future • What plans do you have for your future? • What are your primary concerns when you think about the future? • What are your expectations for future generations? • What do you kind of future do you want to see for Muslims in China?

  8. The filmmaker Eric Gustafson CNN, ESPN, Warner Brothers, Spike TV Videographer, editor, producer

  9. The language specialist Cynthia Ning author: •Communicating in Chinese (year 1) •Exploring in Chinese (year 2; with DVD) •Encounters: Chinese Language & Culture (year 1; with feature film, documentary, website) all from Yale U Press (from Hawaii DOE TV show Mandarin for Kids)

  10. Possibly accompanied by (NRCEA) • Kuang-tien Yao, • UH China librarian, on an acquisitions trip focusing on Chinese Muslims • James Frankel, • UH Assistant Professor, Religion, specialist on Islam in China, looking to develop a new course

  11. Actual route 5.16–6.3.2011 • 2 days in Beijing, fly to Urumqi/X—1 day • Fly to Kashgar/X—2 days • Fly through Urumqi to Turpan/X—1 day • Overnight train to Dunhuang/G, evening train to Jiayuguan/G • Evening flight to Lanzhou/G, sunset drive to Linxia/G • Evening return to Lanzhou, train to Xining/Q— 1 day • Overnight train to Yinchuan/N— 1 day • Afternoon flight to Xi’an; 1 day • Morning flight to Beijing; 1 day

  12. Basic demographics • Muslim population = 1.5% of total, about 20 million • Xinjiang A.R. (Urumqi): 22 million population Uighur (45%), Han (41%), Kazakh (7%), Hui (5%), Kyrgyz (1%), Mongol (1%)… • Gansu Pr. (Lanzhou): 26 million population Han (91%), Hui (5%), Dongxiang (2%), Tibetan (2%) LinxiaHuiA.Pref. —2 million population • Qinghai Pr. (Xining): 6 million population Han (54%), Tibetan (21%), Hui (16%), Tu (4%), Salar (2%), Mongol (2%) • Ningxia Hui A.R. (Yinchuan): 6 million population Han (62%), Hui (34%)

  13. Challenges

  14. Chinese-style political rulesby Michael Zhang, president, Blue Hawaii Lifestyle and Blue Hawaii Surf•There are some things you can both say and do.  •There are some things you can say but you can't do now(or maybe ever).•There are some things you can't say but you can do. •There are some things you can never either say or do.

  15. Hao Ping, UH-CCS alumnusPRC Vice Minister of Education

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