Among the large and small people groups inhabiting Central Asia, the Hui or Dungan occupy a special place. Dungans – Muslims Sunni direction of the Hanafi madhhab and moved to Semirechye (southeastern Kazakhstan and northeastern Kyrgyzstan) in the 1870s after the defeat of the anti-Qing uprising in China. Today Dungans live mostly in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Russia. This event will help familiarize the public and political community in the United States with Dungan culture, which has absorbed elements of Muslim, Central Asian, and Chinese cultures and yet preserves its own unique ethnic identity. | 
