Wang Daiyu gives a very interesting history lesson in the fiqh of land categorization (i.e., Dar-ul-Islam vs Dar-ul-Harb), from the perspective of traditional Chinese Muslim scholarship:

It should also be noted that one of the reasons why many ulemas took the stance that one should migrate from non-Muslim lands is because of not-so-positive experience of many Muslims in some lands bordering the Islamic world. Thus the collective experience of some Muslim minorities became one of the basis of fiqh ruling in this case. However the collective experience of Chinese Muslims was quite different and thus the question of migration or how to live in a non-Muslim land was less relevant. Thus the question of dar-al-Islam vs. dar-al-harb never arose for the Chinese Muslims for more than a thousand years. This example is very relevant for Muslims in the West as most of them come from majority Muslim countries where many ulemas still use the old categories.

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