Communism in an Enchanted World : Chinese Folk Religion under Mao Zedong
by
S. A. Smith
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1009600931
ISBN-13
9781009600934
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 4th, 2026
Print length
394 Pages
Weight
767 grams
Dimensions
23.10 x 16.30 x 2.70 cms
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Bringing an often-neglected aspect of modern Chinese history to the fore, Steve Smith shows how folk religion maintained a vital presence in everyday life in China after 1949. This unique history gives readers a vivid sense of life under Mao Zedong as vibrant, contentious and resilient.
Drawing together decades of research, Steve Smith explores the survival and adaptation of folk beliefs in Mao's China in the face of seismic social change and growing political repression. Bringing an oftenneglected aspect of modern Chinese history to the fore, he shows how folk religion maintained a vital presence in everyday life. In myriad ways, through Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism, spirit mediums and spirit healing, divination, geomancy, and the reform of traditional marriage and funeral rites, rituals, and beliefs provided resources for adaptation and resistance to the regime. Nevertheless the survival of folk religion must be set against the secularizing forces that the regime unleashed. This unique history gives readers a vivid sense of life under Mao Zedong as vibrant, contentious, and resilient – a far cry from stereotypes of a secular, regimented, and monochrome society.
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