The Market and Temple Fairs of Rural China : Red Fire

ISBN-13: 9780415520799 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 272 str.

Eugene Cooper; Gene Cooper

Opis

During the early communist period of the 1950s, temple fairs in China were both suppressed and secularized. This book reveals how once these secular 'temple-less temple fairs' were in place, they came to serve as sites where a revival or recycling of popular religious symbols found familiar and fertile ground in which to spread.

Spis treści

Part I: Background and Setting  1. Conceptual Framework  2. The field site – the Jinhua region – the geographic, historical and political economic background 3. Religion in Jinhua  and Perspectives for Understanding it 4. Temple Fairs in Chinese History and Chinese Folklore Studies  Part II: Unraveling the strands of the total social phenomenon  5. Secular Fairs - The Commercial/Economic dimension  6. The Popular cultural dimension  7. More Popular Culture - Wuju (Jinhua opera)  8. The Religious Dimension - the temple fair of Hugong Dadi 9. The Political Dimension – Macro and Micro  10. Fotang Town: the Resacralization of a Commercial Fair 11. Conclusions

O autorze

Gene Cooper is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California, USA.