Enchanted Revolution

Enchanted Revolution would be excellent for teaching historical methodologies for students of religious studies, East Asian studies, and gender studies. While a working knowledge of twentieth-century Chinese history will be indispensable for placing Kang's argument in its larger context, those approaching the material as outsiders unfamiliar with the Chinese language will nevertheless find her a helpful scholar.

Autorentext
Xiaofei Kang is Associate Professor of Religion at the George Washington University. She is the author of The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China and co-author of Contesting the Yellow Dragon: Ethnicity, Religion, and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland.



Klappentext
Enchanted Revolution moves religion and gender to center stage in the Chinese Communist revolution, examining the mobilizational dynamics of anti-superstition propaganda in support of the Communist Party's rise from rural backwaters to national dominance.

Xiaofei Kang argues that religion was not merely adversary for the revolutionaries-it also served as a model for the ways in which the Party mobilized support and constructed legitimacy. In this parallel and often paradoxical process, the Party attacked "superstitions" that had long supported the foundations of Chinese religious life. At the same time, Party propaganda co-opted these same religious resources for its own political ends.

Kang demonstrates that the persuasive power of Party propaganda relied heavily on recasting the cosmic forces of yin and yang that sustained the traditional gender hierarchy and ritual order. Moreover, revolutionary art and literature revamped old narratives of female ghosts and ritual exorcism to inject the people with a new masculinist vision of the Party-state endowed with both scientific potency and the heavenly mandate. Gendered language and symbolism in Chinese religion thus remained central to inspiring pathos, ethos, and logos for the revolution. Enchanted Revolution sheds light on the contemporary significance of the Maoist legacy in China through a deft exploration of the complex interplay of religion, gender, and revolution.

Zusammenfassung
Enchanted Revolution moves religion and gender to center stage in the Chinese Communist revolution, examining the mobilizational dynamics of anti-superstition propaganda in support of the Communist Party's rise from rural backwaters to national dominance.

Inhalt
1. Introduction: The Red, the Green, and the White
PART I The Campaigns
2. A Time to Heal or a Time to Kill
3. From Loafers to Labor Heroes
4. Model Doctors and the Wonder of Science
PART II The Stories
5. Catching the "Red-Shoed Demoness"
6. An Enemy to Rise or an Enemy to Fall
7. A Different Place, a Different Story
PART III The Magnum Opus
8. Saving the Ghosts, Saving the People
9. Conclusion
List of Electronic Databases
Bibliography
Index

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