@article{article_544609, title={“People are God” Third World Internationalism and Chinese Muslims in the Making of the National Recognition in the 1950s}, journal={İstanbul University Journal of Sociology}, volume={38}, pages={267–292}, year={2019}, author={Zhiguang, Yin}, keywords={Third world,National recognition,Colonialism,Chinese Muslims,Civilization}, abstract={<p>This paper investigates the role of Islam, particularly the Chinese Muslim scholars’ participation in the nationbuilding </p> <p>of the People’s Republic of China. It also looks at the political narrative of the CCP on Islam in the </p> <p>context of the Chinese revolution. Anti-imperialism and socialist construction were the two primary political </p> <p>goals allowing people to be politically engaged and consequently create a common ground for recognition. </p> <p>Hence, religion was considered as merely another form of ideology which needed to be incorporated into the </p> <p>political mission leading toward human liberation. The internationalist support of the anti-colonial struggles in </p> <p>the Arab World also played a crucial role in the formation of the national recognition in the 1950s. The reports </p> <p>on the Chinese political support towards the Arab world presented the Arab people as a unity with their </p> <p>revolutionary spirit rooted in Islamic religious tradition and inspired by their recent history of being oppressed </p> <p>by colonialism. </p>}, number={2}, publisher={İstanbul Üniversitesi}