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The market and temple fairs of rural China : red fire
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Title
The market and temple fairs of rural China : red fire / Gene Cooper.
ISBN
0203104609
1136250255
1136250298
1136250301
1138109487
9780203104606
9781136250255
9781136250293
9781136250309
9781138109483
0415520797
9780415520799
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, ©2013.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Summary
During the early communist period of the 1950s, temple fairs in China were both suppressed and secularized. Temples were closed down by the secular regime and their activities classified as feudal superstition and this process only intensified during the Cultural Revolution when even the surviving secular fairs, devoted exclusively to trade with no religious content of any kind, were suppressed. However, once China embarked on its path of free market reform and openness, secular commodity exchange fairs were again authorized, and sometimes encouraged in the name of political economy as a me.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Print version: Cooper, Eugene, 1947-2015. Market and temple fairs of rural China. London ; New York : Routledge, ©2013
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
Asia's transformations ; 37
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of plates; List of maps; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: conceptual framework; PART I BACKGROUND AND SETTING; 2 The field site-the Jinhua region: 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 Dadi9 The political dimension: macro and micro; 10 Fotang town: the resacralization of a commercial fair; 11 Conclusions; Appendix 1: Selected Daoqing repertoire items; Appendix 2: Selected Wuju repertoire items; Bibliography; Index.
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