Hui imams pray before the main Friday prayers during the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the historic Niujie Mosque in Beijing on July 4, 2014 The road to Linxia, in China’s vast, sere northwest, is ...

Beginning the track with a yawn, there’s a bit of irony in the seemingly nonchalant opening seconds of HUI’s debut single “Hmm BOP.” But mere seconds later, the listener is catapulted into a realm of ...

He Hui as Cio-Cio-San and Roberto Aronica as Pinkerton in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” Credit: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera Subscribe for ads-free reading The week, Chinese soprano He Hui starts a ...

There are two major Muslim ethnic groups in China: the Hui and the Uyghurs. While these two ethnic communities may share the same god, their respective positions within Chinese society remain ...

Gold-domed mosques and gleaming minarets once broke the monotony of the Ningxia region's vast scrubland every few miles. This countryside here is home to some of China's 10.5 million Hui Muslims, who ...

The Martyr’s Memorial in Shadian, China, is a gray pillar topped with a crescent moon, set on a stone block engraved with names. It commemorates the so-called Shadian incident, a massacre that took ...

While the Muslim Uighurs are increasingly being persecuted, the largest Chinese-Muslim minority, the Hui, are under less scrutiny and thriving as a religious community. DW examines the reasons behind ...

THE faithful are returning from the haj. Waiting for prayers outside the Great Mosque in Tongxin, a remote town in the western province of Ningxia, Li Yuchuan calls his pilgrimage a liberation: “Our ...