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Madian ( "Caravansary" or "Horse Pasture") is a community in Haidian District, Beijing, China. It is adjacent to the intersection of the 3rd Ring Road and the Jingzang Expressway (formerly Badaling Expressway), at the Haidian District-Xicheng District border.

A complex overpass links the northern segment of the 3rd Ring Road with an express route coming from Deshengmen on the 2nd Ring Road through to the Jingzang Expressway. Madian historically had a Hui population, and the Madian Mosque is located in the community. Due to its location accessible to other areas, Madian was selected as a place for the development of new housing. Apartments were built in the place of the slaughterhouse and sheep market after those facilities were demolished. Han people moved into the apartments, causing the percentage of Hui people to decrease. Ultimately most of the displaced Hui Madian residents settled in more inexpensive areas further from the Beijing city core, in the northern and northwestern parts of Beijing.

Wenfei Wang, Shangyi Zhou, and Cindy Fan stated that post-renovation Madian was "relatively expensive".<!--Page 209 explains things in prose but it rounds figures but p 210 does NOT round figures--> The district was 28.6% Hui.

Government and infrastructure

In 2002 Wenfei Wang, Shangyi Zhou, and Cindy Fan argued that the fact that Madian is divided between two administrative offices instead of being under one has "undermined" the Hui community and therefore, unlike the Niujie area in Xicheng District, the city government was less willing to preserve the Hui community in Madian due to developmental pressures. The three authors wrote that the decline of the Hui population in Madian furthers the decline of the Hui economy there, and vice versa in a repeating process. It was previously named Madian Primary School (S: 马甸小学, P: Mǎdiàn Xiǎoxué).

See also

  • Hui people in Beijing

References

  • 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. , 9780674594975.
  • Wang, Wenfei, Shangyi Zhou, and C. Cindy Fan. "Growth and Decline of Muslim Hui Enclaves in Beijing"<!--Old URL: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/downloads/597/202.pdf--> (Archive). Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2002, 43, No. 2, pp.&nbsp;104–122. DOI 10.1080/10889388.2002.10641195
  • Wu, Weiping and Piper Gaubatz. The Chinese City. Routledge, April 26, 2013. , 9781136990823.

Notes

  • Beijing Haidian Minzu Primary School
  • "影像四合院——马甸的变迁." (Archive) City of Beijing.