The World of Chinese

WEDDED TO TRADITION

一场中亚东干族传统婚­礼

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With a population of 120,000, the Dungan of Central Asia are descendant­s of Hui Muslims who fled China in the 1800s. Following Islam, cooking Chinese recipes, and speaking a Mandarin dialect written in Cyrillic, they have held on to their unique heritage despite the forces of modernizat­ion.

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