Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Purposes and Form of a Muslim History in China -- 1. The Frontier Ground and Peoples of Northwest China -- 2. Acculturation and Accomodation: China's Muslims to the Seventeenth Century -- 3. Connections: Muslims in the Early Qing, 1644-1781 -- 4. Strategies of Resistance: Integration by Violence -- 5. Strategies of Integration: Muslims in New China -- 6. Conclusion: Familiar Strangers -- Chinese Character Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.