Migration as a Spiritual Pathway

Narratives of Chinese Falungong Practitioners in Singapore

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2174684
AutoresChee-Han Lim (Nanyang Technological University, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume14
Fascículo1
Páginas57-70
Data de publicação2013-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCanberra Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14442213.2012.750683
OpenAlexW2086787609
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas15

Owing to Falungong's illegal status in China, ethnographies on the qigong style often rely on fieldwork conducted with its members in other countries. Although most of these practitioners are ethnic Chinese immigrants, little is known about the role that Falungong plays in their migrant experience. This paper attempts to fill this gap by providing an ethnographic account of the migrant experiences of mainland Chinese Falungong practitioners in Singapore. I seek to demonstrate that Falungong's other-worldly cosmology allows these migrants to construct a narrative that re-frames their disenchantment with the Chinese modernisation project and their subsequent departure to Singapore as an eschatological pilgrimage in search of a spiritual promised land

Ancient history · Art · China · Disenchantment · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Immigration · Literature · Mainland China · Modernization theory · Narrative · Pilgrimage · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia