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Item Details
| Title:
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CHINA
A RELIGIOUS STATE |
| By: |
John Lagerwey |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£14.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9888028049 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789888028047 |
| Publisher: |
HONG KONG UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2010 |
| Series: |
Understanding China - New Viewpoints on History and Culture |
| Pages: |
248 |
| Description: |
The product of extensive fieldwork on local society and festivals in China, this book represents a first attempt to integrate top-down and bottom-up views of Chinese society, culture, and history. It will be of interest to a wide range of China specialist |
| Synopsis: |
The Chinese state has always been a religious one, in which pantheons and rituals were central political concerns. But while the state regularly refined its definition of orthodoxy, Chinese local society worshiped gods of its own choosing and organized itself autonomously in geomantic space, according to a local festival calendar. |
| US Grade: |
College Graduate Student and over |
| Publication: |
Hong Kong |
| Imprint: |
Hong Kong University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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