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Violence and order on the Chengdu Plain : the story of a secret brotherhood in rural China, 1939-1949 / Di Wang.
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 in 1940s rural Sichuan.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781503605336
- ISBN: 1503605337
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages)
- Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 30, 2018). |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. History. |
