For more than a millennium, Islam has been a Chinese religion, and native-born Chinese Muslims have played important roles in their homeland—as butchers, merchants, and farmers; diplomats, scholar-officials, and royal astronomers. Yet the Muslims of China have often been understood as inherently foreign, incompatible with Chinese culture. In this reappraisal, Rian Thum recaptures the ordinariness of Chinese Muslims. In doing so, he suggests that these communities, whose classification has so often been seen as problematic, can teach us about the ways social categories are made and maintained in the first place.
Monday, November 10, 2025
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (Pacific Time)
Public Affairs, Rm 2270
Program on Central Asia, APC
The 60th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium considers revolution as a mode of imagining new ways of seeing, knowing, and acting in the field of art history. The 3:30 PM keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr. Sohl Lee, whose work explores the nexus of art, activism, and institutional critique in contemporary Korea and East Asia more broadly.
Friday, November 14, 2025
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM (Pacific Time)
UCLA Hammer Museum
Asia Pacific Center
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