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125516 results in Asian Studies

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  • Profit and Protection: Emin Khwaja and the Qing Conquest of Central Asia, 1759–1777

  • Kwangmin Kim
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Asian Studies / Volume 71 / Issue 3 / August 2012
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 August 2012, pp. 603-626
    Print publication:
    August 2012

  • This article provides a Muslim perspective on the eighteenth-century Qing conquest of Xinjiang. It explores the career of Emin Khwaja, a leader of the Muslim community of Turfan and the most prominent Muslim ally in the Qing conquest. I investigate how the notion of “protection” (ḥimāyat in Arabic), a key concept in the Central Asian Muslim understanding of religious and political patronage, informed Emin's decision to ally himself with the Qing. I argue that Emin understood his alliance with the “infidel” Manchu not as a collaboration in betrayal of Islam but as a positive policy to achieve security and prosperity of the Muslim community in the changing political and commercial environment of eighteenth-century Eurasia. Emin was able to build a local coalition of Muslim commercial interests for the support of the Qing, while promoting his standing within the regional political hierarchy of Muslim Central Asia.

  • Food Safety and Social Risk in Contemporary China

  • Yunxiang Yan
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Asian Studies / Volume 71 / Issue 3 / August 2012
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 August 2012, pp. 705-729
    Print publication:
    August 2012

  • Food-safety problems constitute a new, urgent, and multifaceted challenge to Chinese people, society, and the state, involving a number of social, political, and ethical issues beyond those of food safety, nutrition, and health. In light of Ulrich Beck's theory of risk society, this article examines food-safety problems in contemporary Chinese society at the levels of food hygiene, unsafe food, and poisonous foods and argues that food-safety problems not only affect the lives of Chinese people in harmful ways but also pose a number of manufactured risks that are difficult to calculate and control. More importantly, food-safety problems in China have contributed to a rapid decline of social trust, thus posing a risk of distrust that has far-reaching social and political ramifications. In this sense, a risk society has already arrived in China but it comes with certain local characteristics and poses some new theoretical questions.

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