Editing Hui people (section)

=== Modern period ===
During [[Land Reform Movement (China)|China's land reform movement]] (which began after the defeat of the Japanese in the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] and continued in the early years of the People's Republic of China), the Communist Party encouraged rural women in achieving a "double fanshen"—a revolutionary transformation as both a peasant and a feminist awakening as a woman.<ref>{{Cite book |last=DeMare |first=Brian James |url= |title=Land wars : the story of China's agrarian revolution |date=2019 |publisher=[[Stanford University Press]] |isbn=978-1-5036-0849-8 |location=Stanford, California |pages=140–141 |oclc=1048940018}}</ref> The progress of Hui women was promoted as by the party as an example of such a success.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=DeMare |first=Brian James |url= |title=Land wars : the story of China's agrarian revolution |date=2019 |publisher=[[Stanford University Press]] |isbn=978-1-5036-0849-8 |location=Stanford, California |pages=141 |oclc=1048940018}}</ref> Through the rural movement, Hui women were said to have not just received land, but also "freedom over their own bodies."<ref name=":0" /> Hui women embraced political participation and the rural revolution.<ref name=":0" /> The land reform movement succeeded among Hui people because activists first won over elder generations.<ref name=":0" />

The [[Cultural Revolution]] wreaked much havoc on all cultures and ethnicities in China. The quelling of Hui militant rebels at the hands of the [[People's Liberation Army]] in Yunnan, known as the [[Shadian incident]], reportedly claimed over 1,600 lives in 1975.<ref>Yongming Zhou, ''Anti-drug crusades in twentieth-century China : nationalism, history, and state building'',  Lanham [u.a.] Rowman & Littlefield 1999, p. 162</ref>