ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the local politics in Hui Muslim communities of Ningxia in the period of the Reform and Opening-Up Policy. From the end of the 1990s until 2002 conducted a long-term fieldwork in Hui Muslim communities in Yinchuan City under the guidance of the Social Science Academy of Ningxia. The chapter focuses on the dynamic process of rebuilding a gongbei and the tactics of Hui Muslims who protect their ancestors' gongbei against the enemy who criticize Sufi Muslims. It discusses the complexity of the local politics in Hui Muslim communities in relation to the religious control by the Chinese Communist Party. Yinchuan is the capital of the Hui Autonomous Region and has been a center of political, economic and cultural activities in Ningxia since 1958. In Ningxia, the Administration for the Religious Affairs of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and the Ethnic Affairs Commission of Ningxia function as the same administrative apparatus to control ethnic and religious affairs.
