Fashion among Chinese Muslims
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MARIS GILLETTE
IS I M REVIEW 15 /SPRING 2005
In 1999, a Chinese Muslim (Hui) woman
who lived in the old Muslim district
(Huiminfang) in the city of Xian, Northwest
China, showed me an outfit she
had asked a local tailor to make for her.
The long green robe and white head-
scarf closely resembled the Middle
Eastern womens dress known as hijab.
My friend, whose name was Lanlan,
was very excited about the robe and
veil. Lanlan said that she wore the robe
and headscarf when she went to pray
in the mosque, and when she attended
Quranic study classes.
When I first met Lanlan in October, 1994, she dressed in western-style
blouses, trousers, and sweaters, and kept her head uncovered. She had
recently permed her hair, which preoccupied her because she believed
that perms were un-Islamic. "Young women have to be fashionable, "
Lanlan said to me, justifying her choice. "Im not even forty. " Lanlan
felt more secure about her hairstyle after she learned that a daughter
of a local ahong (imam) had also permed her hair. In 1999 the clothes
that Lanlan wore at home were not much different than what she had
worn in 1994, but she was engaged in new religious activities and had
adopted new Middle Eastern-style clothing to wear when she went to
the mosque. How should we understand these developments?
New consumption among Chinese Muslims
When I arrived in Xian to conduct research among urban Chinese
Muslims (Hui) in January 1994, residents of the Muslim district were
experiencing economic success as private entrepreneurs. An abundance
of new consumer goods were available, and local Muslims were
enjoying them. They spent substantial sums of money renovating and
constructing mosques, building private homes, and hosting expensive
rituals. They purchased new foods, clothing, furniture, vehicles, electronics,
dinnerware, and videot ...
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