Religion in China Today
Author : Donald E. MacInnis
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Donald E. MacInnis
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Zhufeng Luo
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 32,74 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780873326094
A study of religion in contemporary China based on field research by Chinese social scientists. Written by a group of scholars at the Religion Research Institute of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sceinces, it responds to the designation of religion as one of the twelve "key topics" for special study by the Sixth Five-Year Plan for Economic Development, an astonishing reversal fo the cultural revolution goal of the eradication of religion completely and forever.
Author : Yunxiang Yan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2003-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804764115
For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years’ fieldwork that has resulted in this book—a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999. The author’s focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.
Author : Asia Watch Committee (U.S.)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781564320506
V. Arrests and Trials
Author : Huaiyin Li
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0804771073
Village China Under Socialism and Reform offers a comprehensive account of rural life after the communist revolution, detailing villager involvement in political campaigns since the 1950s, agricultural production under the collective system, family farming and non-agricultural economy in the reform, and everyday life in the family and community. Li's rich examination draws on original documents from local agricultural collectives, newly accessible government archives, and his own fieldwork in Qin village of Jiangsu province to highlight the continuities in rural transformation. Firmly disagreeing with those who claim that recent developments in rural China represent a radical break with pre-reform sociopolitical practices and patterns of production, Li instead draws a clear history connecting the current situation to ecological, social, and institutional changes that have persisted from the collective era.
Author : Bob Fu
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1441244662
Tens of millions of Christians live in China today, many of them leading double lives or in hiding from a government that relentlessly persecutes them. Bob Fu, whom the Wall Street Journal called "The pastor of China's underground railroad," is fighting to protect his fellow believers from persecution, imprisonment, and even death. God's Double Agent is his fascinating and riveting story. Bob Fu is indeed God's double agent. By day Fu worked as a full-time lecturer in a communist school; by night he pastored a house church and led an underground Bible school. This can't-put-it-down book chronicles Fu's conversion to Christianity, his arrest and imprisonment for starting an illegal house church, his harrowing escape, and his subsequent rise to prominence in the United States as an advocate for his brethren. God's Double Agent will inspire readers even as it challenges them to boldly proclaim and live out their faith in a world that is at times indifferent, and at other times murderously hostile, to those who spread the gospel.
Author : Wei Shan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9814618608
This book examines how the Chinese state responds to the increasingly diverse civil society and maintains regime stability in a changing society. In recent years, the Chinese leadership has demonstrated great capability of adapting and developing sophisticated mechanisms of social control. The chapters in this book cover a wide range of these mechanisms, including co-opting social forces, managing population and migration, as well as controlling the media, trade unions, the internet, non-governmental organisations, and the cultural industries. The authors also discuss challenges the government is about to face and possible adjustments.
Author : Xiaoxuan Wang
Publisher :
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 0190069384
Maoism and Grassroots Religion explores grassroots religious life under and after Mao in Rui'an County, Wenzhou of southeast China, a region widely known for its religious vitality. Drawing on unexplored local state archives, records of religious institutions, memoirs, and interviews, it tells the story of local communities' encounter with the Communist revolution, and its consequences, especially competition and struggles for religious property and ritual space. Xiaoxuan Wang shows that Maoism permanently altered the religious landscape in China, especially by inadvertently promoting the localization and even (in some areas) expansion of Protestant Christianity, as well as the reinvention of traditional communal religion. He contends that the post-Mao religious revival had deep historical roots in the Mao years, and cannot be explained by contemporary economic motives and cultural logics alone. The book calls for a new understanding of Maoism and secularism in the People's Republic of China.
Author : Human Rights Watch/Asia
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 1997
Category : China
ISBN : 9781564322241
- Suppression of cults
Author : Li Ma
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 153264597X
This book offers a sociological analysis as well as a theological discussion of China’s internal migration since the marketization reform in 1978. It documents the social and political processes that encompass the experiences of internal migrants from the countryside to the city during China’s integration into the global economy. Informed by sociological analysis and narratives of the urban poor, this volume reconstructs the political, economic, social and spiritual dimensions of this urban underclass in China who made up the economic backbone of the Asian superpower.