Liang Yongjia
Biographic Data
| ID | 153441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liang Yongjia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liang |
| FAMILY NAME | Yongjia |
| SIGNATURE | YONGJIA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Esteeming goods for non-accumulation, small realms with few people
This article interprets the kula system through the lens of theLaozi, a Chinese classic of the 6th century BCE. Laozi's ideas regarding "esteeming goods," "non-accumulation," and "small realms with few people" allow us to understand why kula shells and names are precious but impossible to accumulate and how kula serves to keep societies small and peaceful with its subtle practice of organizations, technologies, and calendars. Through exemplary "e…
Diversity without Pluralism
The paper explores religious diversity and pluralism in the religioscape of mainland China with three examples. While religious diversity is de facto practice, "religious pluralism" is not socially recognised, culturally legitimised, or discursively institutionalised. On the one hand, state co-option of religious groups is achieved through particular definition of "religion" without the conceptualisation of pluralism, leaving undefined religious …
Religious revival in rural China and the fate of ‘religion’ in China
This paper explores three aspects of the question of religious revival in rural China, one of the most ‘unexpected’ phenomena since the beginning of the reform and opening-up policy. Firstly, by offering a critical reappraisal of the three models of explaining religious revival – ‘invention of traditions,’ ‘state–society relation,’ and ‘religious market theory’ – I argue that religion should not be reduced into such categories as ‘politics’ or ‘e…
Religious Revival in Rural China
The assembly of three papers in this themed section offers ethnographic reflections on religious revival in rural China. In the last three decades, anthropological studies of this topic have produc
Morality, Gift and Market
This paper analyses a temple restoration initiative during a state-funded project to attract scattered villagers back to their old village centre in southwest China. While state agents who implemented the project created a public space to bring 'civilisation' to the 'backward' peasants, the villagers appropriated the project by restoring an old temple, which immediately became the venue for a variety of communal events. The paper argues that the …
Civilisation and the Anthropological Study of China
Additional informationNotes on contributorsYongjia LiangYongjia Liang is a senior research fellow in the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Stranger-Kingship and Cosmocracy; or, Sahlins in Southwest China
Major works of the ninth to seventeenth centuries have described the kingship of the Nanzhao and Dali kingdoms (652-1254) of Southwest China. I argue that these narratives may be understood in terms of the modes of identifying and assimilating the cosmological alterity proposed by Marshall Sahlins: 'stranger-kingship', which depicted the king as a stranger; and 'cosmocracy', which depicted him as a universal ruler-a 'cosmocrator'. While a strange…
The "Ethnic Error" inUnder the Ancestors' Shadowand Dali Society in the Period of the Nationalist Government
10.2753/CSA0009-4625420405
Reflections on Chinese Ethnicity and Ethnic Politics
10.2753/CSA0009-4625420400
Forum
Between Science and Religion
China Along the Yellow River — Reflections on Rural Society
Morality, Gift and Market
This paper analyses a temple restoration initiative during a state-funded project to attract scattered villagers back to their old village centre in southwest China. While state agents who implemented the project created a public space to bring 'civilisation' to the 'backward' peasants, the villagers appropriated the project by restoring an old temple, which immediately became the venue for a variety of communal events. The paper argues that the …
Diversity without Pluralism
The paper explores religious diversity and pluralism in the religioscape of mainland China with three examples. While religious diversity is de facto practice, "religious pluralism" is not socially recognised, culturally legitimised, or discursively institutionalised. On the one hand, state co-option of religious groups is achieved through particular definition of "religion" without the conceptualisation of pluralism, leaving undefined religious …
Religious revival in rural China and the fate of ‘religion’ in China
This paper explores three aspects of the question of religious revival in rural China, one of the most ‘unexpected’ phenomena since the beginning of the reform and opening-up policy. Firstly, by offering a critical reappraisal of the three models of explaining religious revival – ‘invention of traditions,’ ‘state–society relation,’ and ‘religious market theory’ – I argue that religion should not be reduced into such categories as ‘politics’ or ‘e…
Stranger-Kingship and Cosmocracy; or, Sahlins in Southwest China
Major works of the ninth to seventeenth centuries have described the kingship of the Nanzhao and Dali kingdoms (652-1254) of Southwest China. I argue that these narratives may be understood in terms of the modes of identifying and assimilating the cosmological alterity proposed by Marshall Sahlins: 'stranger-kingship', which depicted the king as a stranger; and 'cosmocracy', which depicted him as a universal ruler-a 'cosmocrator'. While a strange…
The "Ethnic Error" inUnder the Ancestors' Shadowand Dali Society in the Period of the Nationalist Government
10.2753/CSA0009-4625420405
Esteeming goods for non-accumulation, small realms with few people
This article interprets the kula system through the lens of theLaozi, a Chinese classic of the 6th century BCE. Laozi's ideas regarding "esteeming goods," "non-accumulation," and "small realms with few people" allow us to understand why kula shells and names are precious but impossible to accumulate and how kula serves to keep societies small and peaceful with its subtle practice of organizations, technologies, and calendars. Through exemplary "e…
China Along the Yellow River — Reflections on Rural Society
Between Science and Religion
The "Ethnic Error" inUnder the Ancestors' Shadowand Dali Society in the Period of the Nationalist Government
10.2753/CSA0009-4625420405
Reflections on Chinese Ethnicity and Ethnic Politics
10.2753/CSA0009-4625420400
Forum
Stranger-Kingship and Cosmocracy; or, Sahlins in Southwest China
Major works of the ninth to seventeenth centuries have described the kingship of the Nanzhao and Dali kingdoms (652-1254) of Southwest China. I argue that these narratives may be understood in terms of the modes of identifying and assimilating the cosmological alterity proposed by Marshall Sahlins: 'stranger-kingship', which depicted the king as a stranger; and 'cosmocracy', which depicted him as a universal ruler-a 'cosmocrator'. While a strange…
Civilisation and the Anthropological Study of China
Additional informationNotes on contributorsYongjia LiangYongjia Liang is a senior research fellow in the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Religious Revival in Rural China
The assembly of three papers in this themed section offers ethnographic reflections on religious revival in rural China. In the last three decades, anthropological studies of this topic have produc
Morality, Gift and Market
This paper analyses a temple restoration initiative during a state-funded project to attract scattered villagers back to their old village centre in southwest China. While state agents who implemented the project created a public space to bring 'civilisation' to the 'backward' peasants, the villagers appropriated the project by restoring an old temple, which immediately became the venue for a variety of communal events. The paper argues that the …
Religious revival in rural China and the fate of ‘religion’ in China
This paper explores three aspects of the question of religious revival in rural China, one of the most ‘unexpected’ phenomena since the beginning of the reform and opening-up policy. Firstly, by offering a critical reappraisal of the three models of explaining religious revival – ‘invention of traditions,’ ‘state–society relation,’ and ‘religious market theory’ – I argue that religion should not be reduced into such categories as ‘politics’ or ‘e…
Diversity without Pluralism
The paper explores religious diversity and pluralism in the religioscape of mainland China with three examples. While religious diversity is de facto practice, "religious pluralism" is not socially recognised, culturally legitimised, or discursively institutionalised. On the one hand, state co-option of religious groups is achieved through particular definition of "religion" without the conceptualisation of pluralism, leaving undefined religious …
Esteeming goods for non-accumulation, small realms with few people
This article interprets the kula system through the lens of theLaozi, a Chinese classic of the 6th century BCE. Laozi's ideas regarding "esteeming goods," "non-accumulation," and "small realms with few people" allow us to understand why kula shells and names are precious but impossible to accumulate and how kula serves to keep societies small and peaceful with its subtle practice of organizations, technologies, and calendars. Through exemplary "e…
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