This book examines how different social forces, including state ideology and policies, religious culture and ethnic identities, and economic market forces, affect Muslim parents' perceptions and attitudes toward public and religious education.

Yanbi Hong is Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of the School of Humanities at Southeast University, China. His research interests lie in social stratification and mobility, sociology of education, and sociology of health and medicine. He has published several papers on the educational inequality and health inequality of China.

1 Introduction: Muslim Education in a Non-Muslim Society 2 Ethnic Minority Education in Rural China: The Cognitive Rationality Framework and Research Methods 3 The Land, the Life, and Local Education 4 The Localized State, Education, and Local Responses 5 The Binary World and Identity: Education and Naming 6 Secular in Sacred: The Market Impacts on Religious Education 7 Muslim Girls' Marriage and Education: Looking for Well-Being 8 Conclusion and Discussion