The Death of a Virgin
The Cult of Wang Yulan and Nationalism in Jinmen, Taiwan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3012090 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chang-Hui Chi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 669-689 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/anq.0.0071 |
| OpenAlex | W1966702448 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article explores the impact of the global Cold War on local politics through the study of a state deified female ghost Wang Yulan in Jinmen, Taiwan. The liminal status of ghosts in the Chinese celestial order makes room for possible multiple meanings of state-local contestation. Civilians' interpretations of the cult engaged with the official discourse to generate what Bakhtin called "dialogized heteroglossia," revealing the limits of state control over interpretation and ambiguous relations between the state and local society under martial law
Art · Cult · Heteroglossia · Interpretation (philosophy · Liminality · Linguistics · Literature · Martial law · Nationalism · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
The City in late imperial China
Culture, Power, and the State
The imperial metaphor
TEN. Standardizing the Gods
The Genesis and Spread of Temple Cults in Fukien
Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion
Popular Culture in Late Imperial China
Religion in Chinese Society
Art, Myth, and Ritual
Purity and Danger
Of Other Spaces
Female Gender in Chinese Religious Symbols
Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors
Rural China
Seeing Like a State
Bandits, Beggars, and Ghosts
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |