Violence and order on the Chengdu Plain the story of a secret brotherhood in rural China, 1939-1949
Introduction : two stories joined in the Chengdu Plain -- A public execution -- A local band of the Gowned Brothers -- Spirituality and customs -- Secret codes and language -- Disciplines and dominance -- A tenant farmer and Paoge master -- Entering the Paoge -- The decline of power -- A family cris...
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Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
2018
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction : two stories joined in the Chengdu Plain -- A public execution -- A local band of the Gowned Brothers -- Spirituality and customs -- Secret codes and language -- Disciplines and dominance -- A tenant farmer and Paoge master -- Entering the Paoge -- The decline of power -- A family crisis and a rural woman's fate -- Fall of the Paoge -- Looking for the storyteller -- Untangling Paoge myth -- Appendix 1 : Paoge ranks -- Appendix 2 : Lei family tree -- Appendix 3 : selected ritual/festival events -- Appendix 4 : Chinese texts of sayings and poems -- Appendix 5 : brief comments on texts, myth, and history |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 225-247 |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 260 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781503604834 978-1-5036-0483-4 9781503605305 978-1-5036-0530-5 |