This book-length ethnography of the revival of a popular religious temple in contemporary rural China examines the organizational and cultural logics that inform the staging of popular religious activities. It also explores the politics of the religious revival, detailing the relationships of village-level local activists and local state agents wtih temple associations and temp...(展开全部)

The institution of local festivals and temples is not as well known as that of ancestor worship, but it is just as much a universal fact of Chinese life. Its content is an imperial metaphor, which stands in relation to the rest of its participants' lives as the poetry of collective vision, theatrically performed, built and painted in temples, carved and clothed in statues. Step...(展开全部)

王斯福（Stephan Feuchtwang）现为伦敦经济学院（LSE）人类学系兼职教授。研究领域包括人类学理论与中国民间宗教、各文明之比较研究与历史人类学。最近的出版物包括有其作为主编的论文集《制造地点：国家计划、全球化与中国的地方反应》（Making Place: State projects, globalisation and local responses in China, UCL Press 2004）、与王铭铭合写的著作《基层卡理斯玛：中国的四种地方领袖》（Grassroots Charisma: Four local leaders in China, Routledge 2001），另外，还有最近发表在《皇家人类学刊》上的论文“论作为顺从与过度交流的宗教仪式”（'On religious ritual as deference a...(展开全部)

A basic fact of Chinese social life and history is the institution of territorial cults and their festivals. They are highpoints of social life. They portray and punctuate a sense of life and death and present a whole picture of Chinese political relations as seen at their popular roots. The images of demons and ghosts and those of protectors against them which festivals and th...(展开全部)

Before the modernist transformations of the twentieth century, China had one of the richest and most diverse religious cultures in the world. The radical anti-traditionalist policies of both the Republican and Communist regimes as well as other socio-historical factors posed formidable challenges to China’s religious traditions but, this book argues, these conditions also prese...(展开全部)

For those to whom "Taoism" is the Tao te ching and Chuang-tzu, nothing could seem more foreign to Taoism than bureaucracy. In these two classics, the Way (tao) is everything that bureaucracy is not: it is nonhierarchical, undifferentiated, ineffable, spontaneous. The bureaucratic spirit pertains rather to stuffy Confucians, who foolishly imagine that the way to fulfill human po...(展开全部)

Doing fieldwork inside the PRC is an eye-opening but sometimes also deeply frustrating experience. In this volume scholars from around the world reflect on their own fieldwork practice to give practical advice and discuss more general theoretical points. The contributors come from a wide range of disciplines such as political science, anthropology, economics, media studies, his...(展开全部)

Maria Heimer is assistant professor in the Department of Government, Uppsala Univerity, Sweden.

Maria Heimer is assistant professor in the Department of Government, Uppsala Univerity, Sweden.

More than three decades of economic growth have led to significant social change in the People’s Republic of China. This timely book examines the emerging structures of class and social stratification: how they are interpreted and managed by the Chinese Communist Party, and how they are understood and lived by people themselves. David Goodman details the emergence of a dominant...(展开全部)