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Jerome Doyon, Negocier la place de l'islam chinois. Les associations islamiques de Nankin a l'ere des reformes (Negotiating the Place of Chinese Islam: Islamic Associations in Nanjing during the Reform Era), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2014, 249 pp.This book is the result of research conducted by Jerome Doyon for his Master's thesis. The young scholar, currently pursuing his doctorate, carried out expert field work in early 2011 in Nanjing municipality. The author chose to focus on the role, functioning, and interactions of local branches of the Islamic Association of China (IAC) in Nanjing (IAN) and Jiangsu (IAJ). He starts off with the observation that the Chinese state's control over its Muslim populations operates in the special contexts of each region and leads to diverse configurations. This original monograph adopts a "micro" analysis framework, making a break with the top-down approaches often pursued in the study of state control measures relating to religion. The information collected by the author helps reconstitute, based on recontextualised subjectivities, the ways of functioning of the IAC's local branches and the challenges they face.It is rare to come across Western scholars' work regarding the complex mechanisms of interactions among believers, different strata and compartments of the Chinese administration, and the IAC. This is a sensitive subject especially in areas with Muslim majorities in the northwest of China. The author opportunely explored a much less sensitive context in Nanjing by interviewing academics, clerics, the laity, IAC members, and officials.The book's interest lies in taking the reader into the lives of the IAC's branches in Jiangsu. Doyon sheds light on the motivations of their officials and interlocutors (the local and central administration, the Communist Party, local laity, and those from other provinces) and presents a broad picture of the constraints and resources they deal with. The finesse of his analysis lies as much in his reliance on solid knowledge of conceptual frameworks of social sciences as of works published in recent years on the oversight of religion in China.In the first chapter, Doyon notes the IAC's role in the management of religious sites in Nanjing, evaluating to what extent it forms part of the continuities of associations that preceded it, as well as the extent to which it departs from them. He mentions the specificities of the local context: ethnic and sectarian homogeneity, the IAN's financial resources, and absence of political conflict or financial disputes with the administration, etc. This context explains to a great extent the modes of control and financial management adopted by the IAN and IAJ. Given the meagre potential for financing of the small local Muslim community and of funding being linked to income from the IAN property and governmental connections, the IAN has acquired a major degree of control over the finances and activities of local religious sites. It is worth noting that the IAN and IAJ face less pressure from the state and enjoy greater elbow room given the relaxed local political context.In the second chapter, Doyon deals with the association's internal functioning, the process for the selection of its officials, and the intermingling of personnel in the AIC's different strata. …

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Jérôme Doyon, Négocier la place de l'islam chinois. Les associations islamiques de Nankin à l'ère des réformes (Negotiating the Place of Chinese Islam: Islamic Associations in Nanjing during the Reform Era)