Being a Chinese Muslim

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Practising a religious faith in communist China has always been hard. Uighur Muslims face incarceration in re-education camps. But other Muslims have seen repression under communism too.Things were particularly tough in the 1960s during Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution. Then there was a brief period in the 1980s when the state seemed to ease its pressure on believers. Rebecca Kesby has been speaking to two Chinese Muslims about their lives and worship.

Photo: A child waits during prayers at a ceremony to mark the Eid-al-Fitr Festival in the Niujie Mosquein in Beijing, China. The Niujie Mosque is the largest mosque in China's capital and dates back to the 10th century. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

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0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:24.9	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to
0:32.1	watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:36.5	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:41.5	telly we share what we've been watching.
0:43.7	Cladie Aide!
0:45.7	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:48.2	Lovely.
0:49.0	Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:51.2	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:54.7	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC Sounds
1:07.9	Now witness history with me Rebecca Kesby. The plight of Muslims and other religious minorities in China has made headlines in recent years. The government crackdown on the Weiger Muslim population
1:15.6	has been particularly criticized. Religion was first suppressed by Maute-Tung during the Cultural
1:21.5	Revolution in the 60s, but there was a brief period of relief in the 1980s
1:26.7	when mosques and other religious sites were reopened after years of repression. Around 30 years after most religious sites were closed and all practice banned by the communists,
1:49.0	the Chinese government under Deng began easing restrictions and churches temples and mosques began to reopen in the early 80s.
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