Enchanted Revolution - Ghosts, Shamans, Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda,

Enchanted Revolution moves religion and gender to center stage in the Chinese Communist revolution, examining the mobilizational dynamics of anti-superstition propaganda in support of the Communist Party's rise from rural backwaters to national dominance.

List of contents

• 1. Introduction: The Red, the Green, and the White


• PART I The Campaigns


• 2. A Time to Heal or a Time to Kill


• 3. From Loafers to Labor Heroes


• 4. Model Doctors and the Wonder of Science


• PART II The Stories


• 5. Catching the "Red-Shoed Demoness"


• 6. An Enemy to Rise or an Enemy to Fall


• 7. A Different Place, a Different Story


• PART III The Magnum Opus


• 8. Saving the Ghosts, Saving the People


• 9. Conclusion


• List of Electronic Databases


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Xiaofei Kang is Associate Professor of Religion at the George Washington University. She is the author of The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China and co-author of Contesting the Yellow Dragon: Ethnicity, Religion, and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland.

Summary

Enchanted Revolution moves religion and gender to center stage in the Chinese Communist revolution, examining the mobilizational dynamics of anti-superstition propaganda in support of the Communist Party's rise from rural backwaters to national dominance.

Additional text

Enchanted Revolution would be excellent for teaching historical methodologies for students of religious studies, East Asian studies, and gender studies. While a working knowledge of twentieth-century Chinese history will be indispensable for placing Kang's argument in its larger context, those approaching the material as outsiders unfamiliar with the Chinese language will nevertheless find her a helpful scholar.

Product details

• Authors: Kang , Xiaofei Kang, Xiaofei (Associate Professor of Religion Kang, Kang Xiaofei
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9780197654477
• ISBN: 978-0-19-765447-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; China, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Religion & politics, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Asian History, Religion and Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)