China's Muslim Minority

Abstract

editorial note: The problems of minority groups in China, as elsewhere, are of increasing significance. NonChinese elements of Sinkiang Province were discussed by Eleanor Lattimore in the Far Eastern Survey of May 3, 1944 and April 11, 1945. In the issue of August 14, 1946 was published an article by Margaret Portia Mickey on the Cowrie Shell Miao of southwest China. In this issue is the first of three articles by Dr. Bodde on the Muslims of China proper. Dr. Bodde is Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of Pennsylvania. During the war he served with the Office of Strategic Services and the Office of War Information.