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<b><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>"Islam in Hong Kong: Muslims and everyday life in China's world city" Paul O'Connor.</b></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Engages with the experience of being a Muslim ethnic minority in a Chinese cultural climate. Focuses on youth, everyday life, language, education, racism, food, and everyday hybridity.</div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">"An unexpected gem. An innovative book which explores the everyday lived reality of Muslim minorities in Hong Kong. The contemporary focus is framed by a fascinating history of South Asian Muslims which reaches back into the early 19th century. This beautifully wrought study sheds a great deal of light on a range of issues impacting Muslim minorities: from the extent of hybridity—adapting basketball spaces to cricket—to the challenge of eating halal in a culinary culture where pork is ubiquitous! Young Muslims in Hong Kong face racism and their inability to access Chinese language schools has huge implications for employment and social mobility. However, Islam is respected and they are not seen through a security lens. In all, a hopeful study." — <b>Philip Lewis</b>, author of <i>Islamic Britain</i> and <i>Young, British and Muslim.</i></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">"There has long been a need for a book-length account of Muslims in Hong Kong; this readable and informative book admirably fills the void. Anyone interested in how Muslims make their lives and practice their faith in the Chinese city of Hong Kong should definitely read it." — <b>Gordon Mathews</b>, author of <i>Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong.</i></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">"In this insightful and fascinating book, O'Connor walks us through the bustling streets of Hong Kong, where space, civility, hope and freedom are created every day by the territory’s diverse Muslims. It provides a rare glimpse into an imperfect, but perhaps 'good enough' cosmopolitanism, lived in the schools, homes, shops and lives of ordinary people. Amidst the worry and panic about young Muslims in diaspora as either problems or victims, this is a refreshing and much-needed account of the valuable ways a global city deals with difference. An essential text for scholars and students of youth, diversity and contemporary multiculturalism." — <b>Anita Harris</b>, author of <i>Young People and Everyday Multiculturalism.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:verdana,arial,geneva"><strong>Contents</strong></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:verdana,arial,geneva"><strong>Section 1. Foundations <br>
</strong>1. Introduction: Oi Kwan Road <br>2. The history of Islam in Hong Kong <br>3. Transformations <br>4. Islam, Chungking Mansions, and otherness <br><br><strong>Section 2. Religious Practice <br></strong>5. Learning to be Muslim <br>
6. Daily practice <br>7. The ambiguity of halal food in Hong Kong <br><br><strong>Section 3. Language, Space, and Racism <br></strong>8. Muslim youth, language, and education <br>9. Chinese/not Chinese <br>10. Racism versus freedom <br>
11. Use of space <br>12. Conclusion: Thoughts on an anonymous letter </span></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Dr Paul O'Connor <a href="http://cuhk.academia.edu/PaulOConnor" target="_blank">cuhk.academia.edu/PaulOConnor</a><div>
Adjunct Assistant Professor</div><div>Room 411, Humanities Building, New Asia College,</div><div><a href="http://cuhk.orientalecom7.com/en/index.php" target="_blank">Department of Anthropology</a></div><div>The Chinese University of Hong Kong</div>
<div>Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR</div><div>Tel: (852) 3943-7670</div><div><br></div><div>Book now out, <a href="http://www.hkupress.org/Common/Reader/Products/ShowProduct.jsp?Pid=1&Version=0&Cid=16&Charset=iso-8859-1&page=-1&key=9789888139583" target="_blank">Islam in Hong Kong: Muslims and Everyday Life in China's World CIty</a></div>
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