Screen LibraryNegotiating religion in modern China : state and common people in Guangzhou, 1900-1937 /
Traces the history of the revolutionary regime's condemnation of religious practice as superstition in favor of a secular, more enlightened society through the implementation of policy in Guangzhou and the citizens' attempts at adaption and resistance.
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Chinese University of Hong Kong,
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| Publisher Address: | Hong Kong : |
| Publication Dates: | [2011] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Traces the history of the revolutionary regime's condemnation of religious practice as superstition in favor of a secular, more enlightened society through the implementation of policy in Guangzhou and the citizens' attempts at adaption and resistance. |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 208 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789629964214 : 962996421X |
| Index Number: | BL65 |
| CLC: | B929.265 |
| Call Number: | B929.265/P822 |
| Contents: | Introduction. Religion, modernity, and the reordering of urban space ; Guangzhou and its political and cultural setting ; Sources and structure of the book -- Collapse of the Imperial Order. State, society, and religion in Late Imperial Guangzhou ; The Late Qing reforms and the revamping of the religious landscape ; Superstition: a modernist discourse in the making ; The 1911 Revolution and the measures against religion ... |