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"The theoretical, methodological, and comparative frameworks for the discussion of religion, gender, and revolutionary propaganda in China. It then places this discussion in the historical context of wartime Communist headquarters of Yan'an, where the Party launched its first mass campaign against superstition in 1944-45. The campaign illustrates how Mao's mass-line principle compelled propaganda workers to engage with the rural culture in order to create new meanings from old knowledge"--

This article examines the interface of religion, gender, and old age in contemporary China through the case of a group of rural Han elder women and their community temple in northwestern Sichuan. Without access to monastic resources and charismatic leadership, the women have made the temple a gendered ritual space of their own to obtain social company, spiritual comfort, and moral capital for themselves and their families. Neither victims of feudal superstition nor obstacles to modernisation, they are a dynamic transformative force in contemporary rural China. (China Perspectives/GIGA)

Cet article explore les liens entre religion, genre et vieillesse dans la Chine contemporaine à travers l'étude d'un groupe de femmes âgées han en milieu rural et de leur temple communautaire dans le nord-ouest du Sichuan. Dépourvues de ressources monacales ou d'une autorité charismatique, ces femmes âgées ont transformé ce temple en un espace rituel sexué qui leur procure, ainsi qu'à leurs familles, sociabilité, confort spirituel et capital moral. Ni victimes de superstitions féodales, ni obstacles à la modernisation, elles représentent une force de transformation dynamique dans la Chine rurale contemporaine.

"This book is the first long-term study of the Sino-Tibetan borderland. It traces relationships and mutual influence among Tibetans, Chinese, Hui Muslims, Qiang and others over some 600 years, focusing on the old Chinese garrison city of Songpan and the nearby religious center of Huanglong, or Yellow Dragon. Combining historical research and fieldwork, Xiaofei Kang and Donald Sutton examine the cultural politics of northern Sichuan from early Ming through Communist revolution to the age of global tourism, bringing to light creative local adaptations in culture, ethnicity and religion as successive regimes in Beijing struggle to control and transform this distant frontier"--Provided by publisher

Presenting a host of in-depth case studies, Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History argues for and demonstrates the significance of New Sinology by restoring the role of language/philology in the research and understanding of how modern China emerged