In this volume an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the social history and anthropology of Daoism from the late nineteenth century to the present, focusing on the evolution of traditional forms of practice and community, as well as modern reforms and reinventions both within China and on the global stage. Essays investigate ritual specialists, body cultivation and meditation traditions, monasticism, new religious movements, state-sponsored institutionalization, and transnational networks.

Daoism in the Twentieth Century (New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society) (Volume 2)

History

Palmer, David A.

Dean, Kenneth

刘珣

Guangchun, Fan

Asia

University of California Press

Lin Zhao'en (1517-1598) set out to popularize Confucianism by combining Confucian studies with Daoist inner alchemical techniques and Buddhist Chan philosophy into something he called the Three in One Teachings. Despite periods of clandestine activity since its inception, the Three in One cult has undergone a remarkable revival in post-Mao China: today Lin is worshipped throughout Southeast China and Southeast Asia as Lord of the Three in One in over a thousand temples by tens of thousands of cult initiates. Many of the temples have been restored since 1979, when China began to experience an explosive resurgence of popular culture and religion. In this book, based on ten years of field work, Kenneth Dean vividly documents the reemergence of this cult, which seeks to transmit a universal vision of truth yet retains a strong local appeal through its healing rituals and spirit mediumism. Although the Chinese government still tries to suppress these resurgences in the interest of modernization, the cult's locally based networks appear in this account as unstoppable social forces.
 Dean explores the organization and transmission of the Three in One's unique cultural vision, the reception of this vision, and the construction of subjectivity within a vibrant ritual tradition. Outlining such features as inner alchemical meditation, scripture and iconography, ritual practice, and spirit mediumism, he demonstrates the cult's transformative potential as well as its contemporaneity and dynamism. Rural Chinese popular culture as a whole emerges here as highly complex and always evolving--traditional and resilient.

Lord of the Three in One: The Spread of a Cult in Southeast China

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Princeton University Press

Most commentators imagine contemporary China to be monolithic, atheistic, and materialist, and wholly divorced from its earlier customs, but Kenneth Dean combines evidence from historical texts and extensive fieldwork to reveal an entirely different picture. Since 1979, when the Chinese government relaxed some of its most stringent controls on religion, villagers in the isolated areas of Southeast China have maintained an "underground" effort to restore traditional rituals and local cults.

Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China (Princeton Legacy Library)

Most commentators imagine contemporary China to be monolithic, atheistic, and materialist, and wholly divorced from its earlier customs, but Kenneth Dean combines evidence from historical texts and extensive fieldwork to reveal an entirely different picture. Since 1979, when the Chinese government relaxed some of its most stringent controls on religion, villagers in the isolated areas of Southeast China have maintained an "underground" effort to restore traditional rituals and local cults.
Originally published in 1993.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Most commentators imagine contemporary China to be monolithic, atheistic, and materialist, and wholly divorced from its earlier customs, but Kenneth Dean combines evidence from historical texts and extensive fieldwork to reveal an entirely different picture. Since 1979, when the Chinese government relaxed some of its most stringent controls on religion, villagers in the isolated areas of Southeast China have maintained an "underground" effort to restore traditional rituals and local cults.Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

schizoanalysis: Reagan/Bush vs 1st Chinese Empire

First & Last Emporers: The Absolute State and the Body of the Despot (Autonomedia New Autonomy)

Massumi, Brian

Literature & Fiction

Autonomedia

A horrifying 1983 discovery in a remote East Texas oil field remains the subject of mystery and fascination, as questions exist even today about who carried out one of the Lone Star State’s longest unsolved mass slayings. The KFC Murders recalls the true story of a brutal killing spree that started in a Kilgore, Texas fast food restaurant, sparking a decades-long manhunt to find the murderers. Two award-winning veteran newspaper reporters for the Tyler Morning Telegraph recall the tragedy through first-hand accounts, original photographs and collected research.

The KFC Murders: The deadly saga of the infamous East Texas 1983 KFC Massacre

Biographies & Memoirs

Hilburn-Simmons, Jacque

True Crime

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The history of Singapore’s Chinese community has been carved in stone and wood throughout the country. This book looks specifically at sixty-two temples, native-place associations, and guildhalls where epigraphs made between 1819 and 1911 are still found today. These early inscriptions provide first-hand historical information on the aspirations and contributions of the early generation of Chinese settlers in Singapore and reveal the many ways that the epigraph’s chosen structures—and the institutions they represent—have evolved over the years. These epigraphs, newly translated into English, open a window into the world of Chinese communities in Singapore, offering an important source for the study of both Chinese overseas as well as the place of Buddhism and Taoism within the political and social climate of colonial and postcolonial Singapore.

Chinese Epigraphy in Singapore, 1819-1911

Thye, Hue Guan

Reference

University of Chicago Press Journals

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Daoism in the Twentieth Century (New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society) (Volume 2)

Lord of the Three in One: The Spread of a Cult in Southeast China

Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China (Princeton Legacy Library)

Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China (Princeton Legacy Library)

Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China (Princeton Legacy Library)

Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China (Princeton Legacy Library)

First & Last Emporers: The Absolute State and the Body of the Despot (Autonomedia New Autonomy)

The KFC Murders: The deadly saga of the infamous East Texas 1983 KFC Massacre

Chinese Epigraphy in Singapore, 1819-1911