Grassroots charisma : four local leaders in China / Stephen Feuchtwang and Wang Mingming
- Bib ID:
- 3650463
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Feuchtwang, Stephan
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- Description:
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- London : Routledge, c2001
- xv, 205 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0415244188
- Series:
- Routledge studies--China in transition ; 10.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: 1 Introduction 1
- Gender and religious authority in China 2
- Mingming and Stephan 3
- The structure and content of the book 5
- States and local histories 6
- Retelling other people's stories 7
- The authority of religion and its politics 8
- 2 Charisma 10
- Max Weber on charisma 11
- Two anthropologists on Western charisma 13
- Other traditions of charisma 15
- The juncture of times and historicity 20
- PART I 23
- Meifa
- 3 Meifa and its festivals in southern Fujian 25
- Fa Zhu Gong 25
- Reconstructing the history of Meifa 29
- An annual cycle and its wider world 30
- The economy and organisation offestival ritual 34
- Twentieth-century adaptations 35
- A local history 40
- 4 Revolution, fortune and respect: Darkface (Wansheng) 42
- The pivot of Wansheng's story 43
- Being a good cadre 47
- The Cultural Revolution and the cult of Mao 53
- The turningpoint 56
- Towards rehabilitation 58
- 5 Revitalisation of Meifa's identity 63
- Authority andforce 73
- On the language of respect 75
- PART II 79
- Shiding
- 6 Shiding and its temple 81
- The General 83
- Interlude 85
- The Immortal 88
- The tension between temple management and public festivals 90
- A place in its own authority 93
- 7 Writing and inspiration: the story of Dark Wood (Wumu) 94
- Spirit-writing 95
- A career of charisma 96 The ritual of writing 99
- Canonisation 103
- Inspiration with many authors 107
- One and many dictators 112
- Creation in afield of intentions 113
- 8 The location of face: Lin Qingbiao 117
- Custom reform 118
- Post-war revitalisation 119
- A rough tongue and an upright character 120
- Face, place and story 122
- 9 Reform and refinement: Gao Bineng 125
- A good official 125
- Gao Bineng's version of the Immortal 128
- A change of authority 129 A new face for Shiding 136
- Politics, religion andpersonal authority 140
- 10 Gao Bineng at ninety: charismatic authority and the new
- politics of Taiwan 142
- Self-composition 142
- The politics of Taiwan and its martyrs 145
- A politics of culture and community 148
- Authority and respect in Shiding 153
- PART III
- Conclusions 157
- 11 Charisma in Shiding and Meifa 159
- Shiding and Meifa as places in politics of culture 161
- 12 The dispersal of charisma under a national canopy 165
- A final word 172
- Notes 174
- References 194
- Index 200.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Religion and politics -- China
- Other authors/contributors:
- Wang, Mingming, 1962-
- Also Titled:
- Four local leaders in China.
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