Unforgiven and remembered: The impact of ethnic conflicts in everyday Muslim‐Han social relations on Hainan island

With the availability of two fairly detailed and reliable indigenous accounts of a major 1994 ethnic conflict on Hainan Island, People's Republic of China, this article uses a structuration perspective to analyze the routinization of minor conflicts which are precursors to major ethnic conflicts; the impact of collective memories of past unresolved conflicts on everyday interethnic interaction; and minority agency in confronting local state officials’ actions during the ‘resolution’ of such conflicts, and the impact of broader structural factors such as the implementation of minority policies.