From: Matthew Erie Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 10:50 PM
Subject: Update - publications
Dear Colleagues,
I wanted to (shamelessly) update you on my recent publications.
First, my book, China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law is published by Cambridge University Press. The book is available for pre-order at the link below and on Amazon. I am attaching a flyer that includes a 20% discount (discount code: ERIE2016), and would be grateful if you would forward to your institutional library.
Here’s a short description:
China and Islam examines the intersection of two critical issues of the contemporary world: Islamic revival and an assertive China, questioning the assumption that Islamic law is incompatible with state law. It finds that both Hui and the Party-State invoke, interpret, and make arguments based on Islamic law, a minjian (unofficial) law in China, to pursue their respective visions of 'the good'. Based on fieldwork in Linxia, 'China's Little Mecca', this study follows Hui clerics, youthful translators on the 'New Silk Road', female educators who reform traditional madrasas, and Party cadres as they reconcile Islamic and socialist laws in the course of the everyday. The first study of Islamic law in China and one of the first ethnographic accounts of law in postsocialist China, China and Islam unsettles unidimensional perceptions of extremist Islam and authoritarian China through Hui minjian practices of law.
http://www.cambridge.org/academic/subjects/law/socio-legal-studies/china-and-islam-prophet-party-and-law?format=HB&isbn=9781107053373
If you are interested in reviewing the book, please send requests directly to Cambridge University Press at the following link:
www.cambridge.org/academic/request-review-copy/
Second, my article, “Shari’a, Charity, and Minjian Autonomy in Muslim China: Gift-giving in a Plural World,” is forthcoming in American Ethnologist. 2016. 43(2): 1-14 (attached).
Respectfully,
Matthew Erie
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Matthew S. Erie, J.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, Oriental Institute
Associate Research Fellow, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
University of Oxford
Matthew's webpage
Matthew's SSRN page
