Xiaofei Kang, associate professor of East Asian religions and women and gender studies, produced the first long-term study of the Sino-Tibetan borderland. It traces relationships and mutual influence among Tibetans, Chinese, Hui Muslims, Qiang and others over some 600 years, focusing on the old Chinese garrison city of Songpan and the nearby religious center of Huanglong, or Yellow Dragon.
Contesting the Yellow Dragon: Ethnicity, Religion and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland
By Xiaofei Kang
September 13, 2016