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This chapter investigates the role of Islam, particularly the participation of Chinese Muslim scholars, in the nation-building of the People’s Republic of China. It also looks at the political narrative of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Islam in the context of the Chinese revolution. Anti-imperialism and socialist construction were the two primary political goals allowing people to be politically engaged and consequently creating a common ground for recognition. Hence, religion was considered as merely another form of ideology which needed to be incorporated into the political mission leading towards human liberation. The internationalist support of the anti-colonial struggles in the Arab World also played a crucial role in the formation of the national recognition in the 1950s.
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Yin, Z. (2020). ‘The People Are God’ Third World Internationalism and Chinese Muslims in the Making of the National Identity in the 1950s. In: Zhouxiang, L. (eds) Chinese National Identity in the Age of Globalisation. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4538-2_10
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