Modernity and Millenialism in China

Qigongand the Birth of Falun Gong

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2986105
AutoresDavid A Palmer (0000-0003-0884-995X, London School of Economics and Political Science, autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen2
Número1
Páginas79-109
Fecha de publicación2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAsian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1683-478X • E-ISSN: 2168-4227
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1683478x.2003.10552531
OpenAlexW2055047564
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas25

Qigong was the most widespread form of popular religiosity in post-Maoist urban China. The paper traces the shifting combinations of practices and concepts which came to be associated with qigong from 1949 to 1999 in an evolving ideological and political context, and ending with an analysis of Falun Gong's rupture with qigong groups. Qigong as a social movement was the product of an ambiguous marriage between the Chinese state and popular groups, and the Falun Gong crisis resulted from the breaking of this alliance. The case of qigong and Falun Gong illustrates the unresolved tensions between modernity, tradition, nationalism and politics in contemporary China

Alliance · China · Context (archaeology) · Ideology · Modernity · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Religiosity · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law