EPISODE 3 – Studying mosque destructions in China from afar

In 2016 China’s Party-state started a campaign of “Sinification of religions”, targeting among other things mosques built in the “Arab style”. In episode 3, Ruslan Yusupov explains how this policy leads to remodeling, at times even destruction, of mosques throughout China and how we can study these processes remotely. Ruslan is a social anthropologist at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University who has conducted fieldwork in Chinese Muslim (Hui) communities in Yunnan Province.