Product Description: Islam first arrived in China over 1,200 years ago, but for more than a millennium it was perceived as a foreign presence. The restoration of native Chinese rule by the Ming dynasty (1368 1644), after nearly a century of Mongol domination, helped transform Chinese intellectual discourse on ideological, social, political, religious, and ethnic identity...read more
9780824834746 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, April 30, 2011, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: Islam first arrived in China over 1,200 years ago, but for more than a millennium it was perceived as a foreign presence.