Reviews for Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Subaltern Subjects

The average rating for Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Subaltern Subjects based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-06-20 00:00:00 James Olivent I read this book 10 years ago as an expat living in China. This was a great book at the academic level exploring the relationship between the majority Han in China and the minorities. There were several groups of Muslim minorities in the south (Hui) people and of course the Uighurs in the northwest. Gladney really dives in and explore even the divides within the Han. I got a lot of out of it and it's a good primer to explain perhaps how other Asian societies view minorities.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-08-01 00:00:00 Tacara Baumler Gladney makes a persuasive case that "minorities" are central to majority Han self-definition, while at the same time stressing the regional differences internal to the Han that are obvious to the Chinese themselves but lost on many Western "China hands." Precisely because Gladney's work is such a crucial critical intervention its disappointing that as a book Dislocating China is so poorly done. Gladney refers to his own work relentlessly, and is constantly providing the same examples and statistics, so that the book reads like previously published articles and conference papers thrown together rather than a coherent work. A decent editor could have cut fifty pages and dramatically improved readability.