Between Mecca and Beijing
Subtitle: Modernization and Consumption Among Urban Chinese Muslims
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: October 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780804736947
Subjects: Asian studies; Islamic studies; Social & cultural anthropology; 21st century; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Consumption (Economics); Consumer Behavior; Contemporary Economic Situations And Conditions; Sociology - Urban; Business & Economics; Sociology; Muslims; Business/Economics; China; Asia - China; Islam - General; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Xi'an (Shaanxi Sheng); Consumer Behavior - General; Economic Conditions; Xi'an (Shaanxi Sheng, China); Social conditions
First sentence: On a hot day in June 1996, I sat with Xue and Yan at a large table near the wide-open storefront of their family's restaurant.