China Beat Archive

 

Date of this Version

2010

Document Type

Article

Citation

January 13, 2010 in The China Beat http://www.thechinabeat.org/

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Copyright 2010. Used by permission.

Abstract

When I was approached to help National Geographic with their ongoing exhibit of the Terra Cotta Warriors at their museum in Washington, D.C., I thought to myself: “Really? Me? But I work on Islam in late imperial China! I’m one of those scholars who mistakenly types Qing anytime I write about the Qin simply out of finger muscle memory! What could I possibly know about China’s first emperor, Qin Shihuang?”

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