BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//UCLA International Institute//Webtools//EN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20251111T010000Z DTEND:20251111T023000Z DTSTAMP:20260726T015542Z UID:event-17268-20251111T010000Z@international.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Book Talk – Islamic China: An Asian History DESCRIPTION:For more than a millennium\, Islam has been a Chinese religio n\, and native-born Chinese Muslims have played important roles in their homeland—as butchers\, merchants\, and farmers\; diplomats\, scholar-offi cials\, and royal astronomers. Yet the Muslims of China have often been u nderstood as inherently foreign\, incompatible with Chinese culture. In t his reappraisal\, Rian Thum (University of Manchester) recaptures the ord inariness of Chinese Muslims. In doing so\, he suggests that these commun ities\, whose classification has so often been seen as problematic\, can teach us about the ways social categories are made and maintained in the first place. LOCATION:Public Affairs\, Rm 2270 PRIORITY:3 BEGIN:VALARM TRIGGER;VALUE=DURATION:-P1D ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Event reminder END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR