Litong

— My own research in China indicates that ex ante logic or modeling is never sufficient in categorizing the diversity emerging in ethnic areas. Each study tour may encounter a new, creative way of adaptation that is beyond the comprehension of strangers.[…]The most creative seem to be the Muslims in Litong, Ningxia, where people return to the Muslim spiritual world only after a certain age and allow the state and the mosque to govern different stages of their life (see Chapter 9).