Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in ChinaColumbia University Press, 2007 M03 27 - 320 páginas Qigong a regimen of body, breath, and mental training exercises was one of the most widespread cultural and religious movements of late-twentieth-century urban China. The practice was promoted by senior Communist Party leaders as a uniquely Chinese healing tradition and as a harbinger of a new scientific revolution, yet the movement's mass popularity and the almost religious devotion of its followers led to its ruthless suppression. |
Contenido
The Birth of Modern Qigong 194964 | 29 |
Political Networks and the Formation of the Qigong Sector | 46 |
The Grandmasters | 86 |
Qigong Scientism | 102 |
Qigong Fever | 136 |
Controversy and Crisis | 158 |
Control and Rationalisation | 183 |
Militant Qigong The Emergence of Falungong | 219 |
Falungong Challenges the CCP | 241 |
The Collapse of the Qigong Movement | 278 |
Conclusion | 281 |
On the Sources Used for this Study | 307 |
Bibliography | 317 |
345 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China David A. Palmer,Assistant Professor David Palmer Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |