Resistance, Chaos and Control in China

Name: Resistance, Chaos and Control in China
Author: Robert Paul Weller

Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese Ghosts and Tiananmen

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Paperback, blz. | Engels

Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 1994

ISBN13: 9781349132058

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Palgrave Macmillan UK e druk, 1994 9781349132058

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Samenvatting

Compares those active resistance movements which burst into public view in China and "cultural resistance", which instead lies unspoken in everyday action. This book argues that certain areas of life defuse attempts at cultural domination by resisting and dissolving all unified interpretation.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9781349132058

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

Hoofdrubriek:Mens en maatschappij

Inhoudsopgave

Part 1 Introduction: resistance; saturation and potentials. Part 2 Taiping Rebellion: Jesus's brother and the Chinese periphery; saturating the movement - God gets power; too many voices; precipitation and institution - the Taiping rises up. Part 3 Taiwanese ghosts: hot and noisy religion; saturated ghosts and social change in Taiwan; failed precipitations; the limits to cultural domination. Part 4 Conclusion - Tiananmen and beyond: institutions of control, institutions beyond control; irony, cynicism and potential resistance.