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Witnessing Disappearance in China during the Global Pandemic

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By Jing Wang

The landscape of Islam within China has been changing rapidly during the pandemic. Ethnographic fieldwork can map these erasures and disappearances in everyday life.

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Photograph of a mosque under renovation
Image description: A mosque building is wrapped in green netting and scaffolding, and a construction crane is visible behind it. The sky is dark.
Caption: A mosque in Linxia, Gansu was under “renovation.” The dome was gone when the picture was taken. Jing Wang