A pig display features at a new year’s lantern festival in Lanzhou, Gansu province. Photo: Weibo

No halal please: meet China’s pig vigilantes

Vocal vigilante groups angered by what they see as creeping Islamisation in Chinese society
The fight to ‘take back’ the Year of the Pig is the newest battle in an escalating confrontation between the vigilantes and ‘religious extremists’

Topic | China Society

Phoebe Zhang

Published: 4:02am, 9 Feb, 2019

Updated: 8:26am, 9 Feb, 2019

A pig display features at a new year’s lantern festival in Lanzhou, Gansu province. Photo: Weibo

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Phoebe Zhang

Phoebe Zhang is a society reporter with the South China Morning Post. She likes to write human-interest stories and has written many about people living on the fringes of society. She believes there's no story or person that's too small.