Resistance, Chaos and Control in China
Author: Robert Paul Weller
Publisher:
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780333593813
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Resistance, Chaos and Control in China
Author: Robert Paul Weller
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1994-06-18
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1349132039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompares those active resistance movements which burst into public view in China and "cultural resistance", which instead lies unspoken in everyday action. This book argues that certain areas of life defuse attempts at cultural domination by resisting and dissolving all unified interpretation.
China’s Ethical Revolution and Regaining Legitimacy
Author: Shaoying Zhang
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-05-11
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 3319514962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the many ways in which the Communist Party in China is still revolutionary by focusing on how, in recent years, it has attempted to mobilize Party members to become ethical subjects. In the context of the Party’s history of the military revolution, Cultural Revolution and Economic Reform (or economic revolution), the authors argue that under President Xi Jinping the Party has launched an ethical revolution within the Party for the sake of sustaining its legitimacy. This book examines the various combined components of this ethical revolution, including anti-corruption, anti-four undesirable working styles and Mass-Line Education programme from the perspective of the fifty current Communist Party officials.
The Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads
Author: Barend ter Haar
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 9004489665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe extensive ritual and mythological lore of the Chinese Triads form the scope of this new paperback in Brill’s Scholar’s List. In it the reader will find a critical evaluation of the extant sources together with a true wealth of context. The core of the book is formed by a close reading of the initiation ritual, including the burning of incense, the altar, the enactment of a journey of life and death, and the blood covenant. Different narrative structures are also presented. These include the messianic demonological paradigm, political legitimation, and the foundation of myth. Triad lore is placed in its own religious and cultural context, allowing radically new conclusions about its origins, meanings and functions. This book is of special interest to social historians, anthropologists, and students of Chinese religious culture.
From Early Tang Court Debates to China's Peaceful Rise
Author: Friederike Assandri
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 905356795X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributors to this insightful volume on topics in Chinese history from the past 1,400 years highlight the complexity at hand inside and outside modern China, while exploring issues related to political and social dynamics, economic structures, modernization, identity building, and Chinese interaction with the outside world. The articles presented here provide new insight on events as broad-ranging as the interreligious court debates of the Tang, the Jiaqing reform of the Qing, the Chinese display at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, China’s rise, and its current Internet regulation, making this highly interdisciplinary collection an important contribution to current scholarship on the nation of China.
The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village
Author: Henrietta Harrison
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2013-06-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0520273117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe MissionaryÕs Curse tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between its history, the globalizing church, and the nation. Harrison recounts the popular folk tales of merchants and peasants who once adopted Catholic rituals and teachings for their own purposes, only to find themselves in conflict with the orthodoxy of Franciscan missionaries arriving from Italy. The villageÕs long religious history, combined with the similarities between Chinese folk religion and Italian Catholicism, forces us to rethink the extreme violence committed in the area during the Boxer Uprising. The author also follows nineteenth century Chinese priests who campaigned against missionary control, up through the founding of the official church by the Communist Party in the 1950s. HarrisonÕs in-depth study provides a rare insight into villager experiences during the Socialist Education Movement and Cultural Revolution, as well as the growth of Christianity in China in recent years. She makes the compelling argument that Catholic practice in the village, rather than adopting Chinese forms in a gradual process of acculturation, has in fact become increasingly similar to those of Catholics in other parts of the world.
Fear, Heterodoxy, and Crime in Traditional China
Author: Tommaso Previato
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-06-27
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9004699007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis multi-contributor volume examines the evolving relationship between fear, heterodoxy and crime in traditional China. It throws light on how these three variously interwoven elements shaped local policies and people’s perceptions of the religious, ethnic, and cultural “other.” Authors depart from the assumption that “otherness” is constructed, stereotyped and formalized within the moral, political and legal institutions of Chinese society. The capacity of their findings to address questions about the emotional dimension of mass mobilization, the socio-political implications of heterodoxy, and attributions of crime is the result of integrating multiple sources of knowledge from history, religious studies and social science. Contributors are Ágnes Birtalan, Ayumu Doi, Fabian Graham, Hung Tak Wai, Jing Li, Hang Lin, Tommaso Previato, and Noriko Unno.
Unstately Power
Author: Lynn T. White, III
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-06-03
Total Pages: 800
ISBN-13: 1317478371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA critique of America's flawed Asia policy that centres on US-Japan relations but harkens back to the same disastrous views that drew America into Vietnam. The technique is a narrative flow of short vignettes woven into longer chapters; the main strands are personal reflections and interviews.
A Companion to Chinese History
Author: Michael Szonyi
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2017-02-06
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 1118624602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to Chinese History presents a collection of essays offering a comprehensive overview of the latest intellectual developments in the study of China’s history from the ancient past up until the present day. Covers the major trends in the study of Chinese history from antiquity to the present day Considers the latest scholarship of historians working in China and around the world Explores a variety of long-range questions and themes which serves to bridge the conventional divide between China’s traditional and modern eras Addresses China’s connections with other nations and regions and enables non-specialists to make comparisons with their own fields Features discussion of traditional topics and chronological approaches as well as newer themes such as Chinese history in relation to sexuality, national identity, and the environment
The Global and Regional in China’s Nation-Formation
Author: Prasenjit Duara
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-12
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1134015305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers the major historical problems of China in the twentieth century, namely imperialism, nationalism, state-building, religion and the role of history from the perspective of global and regional circulations and interactions.
