Fantastic conference.

New arrivals 📚

Crime, greed and jealousy in late Qing Xinjiang. From the „Peking Gazette”, July 1890.

Chillin’ in the mean streets of Taipei…

Yes, apparently. It’s reassuring to know that not all AI companies take the line described in the OP’s post.

Asked Chat GPT this question five minutes ago, it’s still „thinking” what to say

Still, it’s hard to imagine this journal being freely distributed at, say, the Dongsi or Niujie mosques in Beijing.

Indeed, it’s an important window into the official Islamic policies of the PRC, and despite the expected CCP/Xiist content it still manages to keep its academic ambitions with some scholarly articles by Sino-Muslim scholars published in every issue (the current craze being the 伊儒会通）

The PRC Islamic Association of China’s (伊协) journal “Chinese Muslim” (中国穆斯林）is still being distributed at the Taipei Grand Mosque. I didn’t see it on weekdays, but several copies appeared on Friday before the Jumu’a prayer.

A small souvenir from 東港 in southern Taiwan: a mosque established by Indonesian fishermen, located just across the street from a small local shrine. According to people from both places, the two temples coexist amicably.