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Professeure invitée EHESS-CCJ : Hannah Theaker, University of Plymouth — Paris, novembre 2024

 

Hannah THEAKER

Hannah Theaker is a historian with broad interests in modern China, political history, comparative colonialisms, processes of Sinicization, Islam in non-Arab contexts, migration and environmental history. Her work comprises two main strands: her book project, China’s Forgotten Partition, argues that the state-directed resettlements of Muslims that followed the 1860s rebellion in China’s northwest transformed the region, creating new Islamic solidarities and paving the way for the late 19th and early 20th century transformation of Chinese Muslim communities. However, the rebellion also left a deeply Islamophobic history of division. Secondly, she is working on an exploration of the contemporary campaigns for the Sinicization of Islam in China. She continues to be interested in the intersections of religion and ethnicity in China, and in processes of rebellion and minoritization. Her work has been published in numerous venues, including both academic and popular publications, and she is regularly invited to comment in media venues on issues of Islam in China.

Hannah Theaker joined the School of Society and Culture of the University of Plymouth as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in History in Politics in September 2021. She held the title of Plumer Junior Research Fellow in Oriental Studies to St Anne’s College, University of Oxford from 2018-2020, following an appointment as Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese History, 2017-18 at the University of Oxford. She graduated MA (Hons) in Chinese and History with Distinction in Spoken Chinese from the University of Edinburgh, and completed a M.St in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford in 2013. Hannah Theaker received her DPhil from the University of Oxford’s Oriental Institute in 2019 with her dissertation “Moving Muslims: the Great Northwestern Muslim Rebellion and the Transformation of Chinese Islam, 1862-1897”, supervised by Professor Henrietta Harrison and Dr. Matthew Erie. Her thesis was shortlisted for the 2019 Bayly Prize and the 2020 International Convention for Asia Scholars Book Prize (Dissertation). Her DPhil studies were supported by a Clarendon and St Anne’s Scholarship Award and a Confucius Institute Joint Research PhD Fellowship.

Hannah Theaker participe au Programme Professeurs invités de l’EHESS, sur proposition de Marie-Paule Hille (CCJ-CECMC).

 

Conférences

Sinicisation of Islam in China: Policy and Implementation

Dans le cadre du séminaire de Abduweli Ayup, Cloé Drieu et Rune Steenberg, « Endless Night. Exploring mass incarceration and atrocities in XUAR/ET in a comparative perspective » | En format hybride

This paper traces the evolution, implementation and impact of the contemporary sinicisation of Islam campaigns. The paper traces the conception and evolution of the programme, exploring the policy basis as found in Xinjiang Papers Document No. 10 and the Five Year Plan for the Sinicisation of Islam (2018-2022) as published by the China Islamic Association. In addition, the question of discursive links to the rhetoric surrounding the ‘People’s War on Terror’ and ‘counter-extremist’ policy enacted in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region since 2014 is explored. In the second half of this report, the implementation of the measures is explored across five main policy areas, namely aesthetics, organisation, language and education, surveillance and control and mosque mergers. The paper concludes that contemporary sinicisation policy, whilst it is iterative and varies in implementation across the space of China, is radically narrowing the space in which to be Muslim across China, and has profound implications for Hui communities.

  • Lundi 4 novembre, 16h-18h
  • Campus Condorcet, EHESS, salle A327, 2 cours des humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers

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Taxonomies of Hui: Household Registrations and the Making of a Minority in the Late Qing

Dans le cadre du séminaire de Xavier Paulès, Coraline Jortay et Delphine Spicq, « La Chine républicaine (1912-1949) : nouvelles approches historiques »

This paper explores the ramifications of the administrative techniques enacted against Hui (Chinese Muslims) in Shaanxi, Gansu and Qinghai in the wake of the devastating mid-century civil wars (1850s-1870s) of the late Qing. As Hui had been defined as the antagonists in the northwest, post-war rhetoric focused on making the region ‘safe’ through measures specifically targeting Hui population intended to reshape Hui communities and observances: first through mass resettlements, secondly through legal restrictions and an intended programme of cultural transformation. Here, I argue that in the post-bellum late Qing order, household registrations (baojia) functioned as a form of ‘colonial body count’ in which Han and Hui were sharply distinguished in a manner that elided previous ambiguities of place and practice. Such administrative measures served to reinforce the racialisation of Islam in late Qing China, reshaping definitions of Han and Hui in ways that echo across the 20th and into 21st centuries.

  • Mardi 12 novembre, 14h30-16h30
  • Campus Condorcet, EHESS, salle A302, 2 cours des humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers

 

China’s Little Mecca: the Transformation of Islam in the Late Qing Northwest, 1862-1911

Dans le cadre du séminaire de Luca Gabbiani, « Histoire sociale, économique et institutionnelle de la Chine moderne (XVe-XXe siècle) »

Linxia at first glance is an unlikely place for a ‘Little Mecca’. The town is small, by Chinese standards. Set on the loess plains of Gansu, the mountain passes to Amdo rise above it, but it is not the provincial capital nor even on a major river. That it has become known as such speaks to both geographies of Muslim mobility in northwestern China and histories of state-directed resettlements and violence. This paper contends that Linxia became a ‘Little Mecca’ in part through the destruction of other Muslim geographies of China in the 19th century. Following the Great Northwestern Rebellion, 1862-1872, mass resettlements of Muslims directed by the Qing left Linxia as almost the sole Muslim community in northwestern China to emerge comparatively unscathed from the 1860s. With a local Muslim elite able to broker a space of their own within the Qing state, Linxia then played host to a Islamic religious revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the little Mecca.

  • Jeudi 14 novembre, 9h30-11h30
  • Campus Condorcet, Centre de colloques, salle 3.09, cours des humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers

 

Shaping Menhuan: the 1895 He-Huang Rebellion and the Creation of a Sectarian Concept

Dans le cadre du séminaire de Marie-Paule Hille, « Rêve, prophétie, poésie : dimensions éthiques et politiques de l’imagination en islam chinois »

This paper seeks to interrogate the circumstances around the creation of the word ‘menhuan’, a term used to describe Sufi tariqa in China’s northwest. This paper explores its origins in late 19th century Qing discourse surrounding Islam and, in particular, the fraught politics that surrounded the aftermath of the 1895 He-Huang Rebellion. The term ‘menhuan’, used to describe the institutional forms taken adopted by tariqa in China, was coined by Magistrate Yang Zengxin in the wake of this rebellion. The word ‘menhuan’ has since been adopted into the lexicon of Sufism in the Chinese language, albeit the usage of the term remains contested. The term, however, emerges from his efforts to define not just a single order as heterodox, but the existence of Sufi orders as a form as problematic in itself. Yang’s coinage, however, was not a solo effort: his campaign to take down the gongbei echoed the interests of both a group of anti-Sufi Muslim officials and reformers in Gansu, and of a clique of officials associated with the Hundred Days’ Reform Movement, who sought to argue that Islam had no place inside the passes. Understanding the complex life of ‘menhuan’ and the connotations the term has acquired since in the study of Sufism in China requires disentangling the layers of meaning encapsulated in its origins.

  • Mardi 19 novembre, 14h30-17h30
  • Campus Condorcet, EHESS, salle A302, 2 cours des humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers

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OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Chargé de diffusion scientifique (2 octobre 2024). Professeure invitée EHESS-CCJ : Hannah Theaker, University of Plymouth — Paris, novembre 2024. IISMM. Consulté le 23 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/12ecn


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