| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ge lao hui -- History -- 20th century.
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Ge lao hui. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Brotherhoods -- China -- Sichuan Sheng -- History -- 20th century.
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Brotherhoods. |
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China -- Sichuan Sheng. |
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Secret societies -- China -- Sichuan Sheng -- History -- 20th century.
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Secret societies. |
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Power (Social sciences) -- China -- Sichuan Sheng -- History -- 20th century.
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Power (Social sciences) |
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Filicide -- China -- Sichuan Sheng -- History -- 20th century.
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Filicide. |
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Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Rural conditions -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wang, Di, 1956- Violence and order on the Chengdu Plain. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018] 9781503604834 (DLC) 2017032564 (OCoLC)999440528 |
| ISBN |
9781503605336 (electronic book) |
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1503605337 (electronic book) |
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9781503604834 |
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