Violence and order on the Chengdu Plain : the story of a secret brotherhood in rural China, 1939-1949 /

This is the first book-length treatment of the Paoge--a violent secret society located in a rural village near Chengdu, China. The book uses a filicide within the society as a starting point to examine the environment, history, culture, and organization of the Paoge and the structures of local power...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wang, Di, 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Ge lao hui > History > 20th century.
Ge lao hui.
1900-1999
Brotherhoods > China > Sichuan Sheng > History > 20th century.
Secret societies > China > Sichuan Sheng > History > 20th century.
Power (Social sciences) > China > Sichuan Sheng > History > 20th century.
Filicide > China > Sichuan Sheng > History > 20th century.
Confréries > Chine > Sichuan > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sociétés secrètes > Chine > Sichuan > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Filicide > Chine > Sichuan > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Brotherhoods.
Filicide.
Power (Social sciences)
Rural conditions.
Secret societies.
Sichuan Sheng (China) > Rural conditions > 20th century.
Sichuan (Chine) > Conditions rurales > 20e siècle.
China > Sichuan Sheng.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : two stories joined in the Chengdu Plain
  • A public execution
  • A local band of the Gowned Brothers
  • Spirituality and customs
  • Secret codes and language
  • Disciplines and dominance
  • A tenant farmer and Paoge master
  • Entering the Paoge
  • The decline of power
  • A family crisis and a rural woman's fate
  • Fall of the Paoge
  • Looking for the storyteller
  • Untangling Paoge myth
  • Appendix 1 : Paoge ranks
  • Appendix 2 : Lei family tree
  • Appendix 3 : selected ritual/festival events
  • Appendix 4 : Chinese texts of sayings and poems
  • Appendix 5 : brief comments on texts, myth, and history.

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