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China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II
By Kelly A. Hammond
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In this transnational history of World War II, Kelly A. Hammond places Sino-Muslims at the center of imperial Japan's challenges to Chinese nation-building efforts. Revealing the little-known story of Japan's interest in Islam during its occupation of North China, Hammond shows how imperial Japanese aimed to defeat the Chinese Nationalists in winning the hearts and minds of Sino-Muslims, a vital minority population. Offering programs that presented themselves as protectors of Islam, the Japanese aimed to provide Muslims with a viable alternative—and, at the same time, to create new Muslim consumer markets that would, the Japanese hoped, act to subvert the existing global capitalist world order and destabilize the Soviets.
This history can be told only by reinstating agency to Muslims in China who became active participants in the brokering and political jockeying between the Chinese Nationalists and the Japanese Empire. Hammond argues that the competition for their loyalty was central to the creation of the ethnoreligious identity of Muslims living on the Chinese mainland. Their wartime experience ultimately helped shape the formation of Sino-Muslims' religious identities within global Islamic networks, as well as their incorporation into the Chinese state, where the conditions of that incorporation remain unstable and contested to this day.
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The University of North Carolina Press
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Sep 30, 2020
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9781469659664
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About the author
KHKelly A. Hammond
Kelly A. Hammond is assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas.
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In this transnational history of World War II, Kelly A. Hammond places Sino-Muslims at the center of imperial Japan's challenges to Chinese nation-building efforts. Revealing the little-known story of Japan's interest in Islam during its occupation of North China, Hammond shows how imperial Japanese aimed to defeat the Chinese Nationalists in winning the hearts and minds of Sino-Muslims, a vital minority population. Offering programs that presented themselves as protectors of Islam, the Japanese aimed to provide Muslims with a viable alternative—and, at the same time, to create new Muslim consumer markets that would, the Japanese hoped, act to subvert the existing global capitalist world order and destabilize the Soviets.
This history can be told only by reinstating agency to Muslims in China who became active participants in the brokering and political jockeying between the Chinese Nationalists and the Japanese Empire. Hammond argues that the competition for their loyalty was central to the creation of the ethnoreligious identity of Muslims living on the Chinese mainland. Their wartime experience ultimately helped shape the formation of Sino-Muslims' religious identities within global Islamic networks, as well as their incorporation into the Chinese state, where the conditions of that incorporation remain unstable and contested to this day.
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The University of North Carolina Press
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November 16, 2020
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China's Muslims and Japan's Empire has a little bit for everyone. It has contemporary implications for the ways that we think about the place of Muslim minorities who live in the People's Republic of China. At the same time, there are some good escapist stories that follow individual Muslims as they navigate their relationships with the Japanese Empire during World War II.--Los Angeles Review of Books China Channel
An illuminating overview of Japan's overtures during WWII to minority Muslim communities in Asia as a nation-building tactic. . . . An excellent and important addition to the WWII history shelf.--Publishers Weekly
A fascinating read and provides insight into a region and history which are all too often neglected. The book forces us to re-think how the history of the Second World War is taught. Our understanding of the conflict is usually from the perspective of Europe and the war with Germany, but millions fought and died across Asia and many of the wounds from that time are part of the political memory in places like China. This book is a much needed study. The fact that it is also an enjoyable read is a bonus.--Middle East Monitor
An important contribution to the study of the cultural and intellectual history of the Japanese Empire. . . . A must-read for those eager to develop a critical perspective concerning how war and politics first appropriated minority religious communities and how these communities responded to state power and imperial violence.--H-War
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This is a groundbreaking examination of Japan's efforts to forge Muslim alliances across 1930s and 1940s Asia. Hammond's innovative study of China's Muslims under Japanese control reveals a little-known dimension of Axis and Allied efforts to attract support from the Muslim-majority portions of the globe. The result is a historical tale replete with extravagant enticements, shadowy intrigue, and diplomatic conspiracies. This book contributes to an array of fields, including twentieth-century China, Asian studies, World War II studies, international relations, and Islamic studies."—David G. Atwill, author of Islamic Shangri-la
About the Author
Kelly A. Hammond is assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas.
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Zee
Mar 26, 2021Zee rated it really liked it
Shelves: china
This book does good justice to a niche and sidelined topic in transnational history covering events and approaches between governments and religious groups that are particularly interesting given their templates were (and continue to be) borrowed. The author’s research contextualizes it well and frequently readjusts false or misleading notions that the reader may have and that historical academia at large has certainly tended to have, willfully or not.
Also frequent is the academic tendency to be overly repetitive with contextual reframing and such, which probably took up a collective dozen or more pages with superfluous sentences throughout the book, but this takes nothing away from its competent treatment of a fascinating but forgotten dynamic of international relations and its ongoing implications. (less)
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Jason S
Apr 19, 2021Jason S rated it really liked it
Shelves: japan, china, islam, world-war-2, imperialism
An interesting book, even though it strayed from thesis often. Argues with some strong evidence that Japan used Chinese Muslims as a way to build larger Asian empires. An interesting chapter on the diplomacy of the tea trade and some interesting parallels in the conclusion to how the PRC used foreign policy in the Suez crisis to win domestic favor from internal Muslims. An interesting reimagining of the boundaries of World War II
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Jaylani Adam
Jul 06, 2021Jaylani Adam rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Interesting book to read when it comes to Muslim community and World War II. I didn't know Japan did like this. I only thought that Italy and Germany were the only ones doing that when they did this to the Muslim subjects of the British, French and Dutch empires. (less)
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