Hui people in Beijing

The 1982 census stated that 184,693 people in Beijing were Hui, making up around 2% of Beijing's total population and 57% of the population classified as ethnic minority. Village and Family in Contemporary China, a 1980 study by William L. Parish and Martin K. Whyte, stated that there were 16,000 Muslims in Beijing. Dru C. Gladney, author of Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic, wrote that based on the 1982 census, the 1980 study had "drastically" underestimated the number of Hui in Beijing.[3]

As of 1996 there was no published data based on the 1982 census which maps the distributions of Hui people in the city.[3] The Niujie ("Oxen Street") community, as of 1996, has the city's highest Hui concentration.[2] As of 1996 other communities which have concentrations of Hui include Madian, Chaonei, Chaowai, Chongwai, Haidian, Sanlihe,[3] and Huashi.

By 2002, Niujie had survived the massive development in Beijing since it was located away from the northern end of Beijing.[4] By that year Madian's Hui population eroded due to redevelopment.[5]

A 2011 paper notes the presence of special primary schools in Niujie and the wider (now-defunct) Xuanwu District meant specifically for Hui students.[6] A principal of one such school said that they aim to supplement China's national teaching standards with an Islamic education, and an instructor said that they aim to ensure that Hui students are able to attain higher education and integrate into wider Chinese society.[6]

Dru C. Gladney stated that Islamic restaurants are often indicators of where Hui in Beijing live.[7] As of 1996 within Beijing the Hui had operated hundreds of Islamic restaurants.[3]

As of 2017 there were about 70 mosques in Beijing.[3] Gladney wrote that the Niujie Mosque in Niujie serves hundreds of Hui families, and typically the presence of one Hui mosque would indicate that 500 Hui individuals or 100 Hui families live in the vicinity.[2]

• Demographics of Beijing
• Uyghurs in Beijing
• Minzu University of China

• Gladney, Dru C. Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic (Volume 149, Issue 149 of Harvard East Asian monographs, ISSN 0073-0483). Harvard University Asia Center, 1996. ISBN 0674594975, 9780674594975.
• Wang, Wenfei, Shangyi Zhou, and C. Cindy Fan. "Growth and Decline of Muslim Hui Enclaves in Beijing" (Archive). Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2002, 43, No. 2, pp. 104–122.