Spotorno, Carlos. "Hui Mosque: A Place of Worship for China's 'Other' Muslims." Steppe: A Central Asian Panorama, Steppe Seven, Winter 2009/10, Snapshot Section.

Spotorno's photograph here is of the interior of a contemporary Hui mosque in Xinjiang, China.  The one page text briefly describes the Hui and their mosque architecture from a Uygur perspective.  Descriptors: 2010s, architecture, China, Hui, identity, magazine, photography, photos, post-Soviet, S, Xinjiang

Benson, Linda and Ingvar Svanberg. China's Last Nomads: The History and Culture of China's Kazaks. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.

This book contains a good historical and contemporary history of the Kazaks in Central Asia and China.

Sections: The Kazaks of Northwestern China: The Physical and Cultural Setting; Kazaks in Central Eurasia and China to the Twentieth Century; China's Kazaks, 1912-1949; CCP Minority Policy and Its Implementation in Xinjiang; Life at the Local Level: Development and Change in Xinjiang's Autonomous Kazak Areas; Kazak Culture and Chinese Politics; Kazakhstan and China's Kazaks in the Twenty-First Century

Fuller, Graham E. and Jonathan N. Lipman. "Islam in Xinjiang." In Xinjiang: China’s Muslim Borderland, edited by S. Frederick Starr, 320-352. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004


Fuller and Lipman's chapter is a summary of Islam in contemporary western China.  Descriptors: 2000s, chapter, China, F, history, L, overview, post-Soviet, Xinjiang