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Tristan G. Brown is a Ph.D. candidate in Modern Chinese History at Columbia University. His interests include geographic, legal, and social histories of late imperial and modern China, as well as the global contexts of Chinese history. Tristan’s research is supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Henry Luce Foundation, and Columbia University. He received a joint B.A. from Harvard College in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and his MA (2011) and M.Phil. (2013) in History from Columbia University.
Feasts of the Sacrifice: Ritual Slaughter in Late Imperial and 20th-Century China
Muslims in imperial China did not necessarily have to worship at the altars of Chinese gods to exert their identities as upstanding local inhabitants, obedient subjects, or agreeable neighbors. As any child brought up on the story of God’s sparing of Ibrahim’s son knows, the followers of any god who pulls his weight in this world or the next are sometimes in need of a lamb or two …
