In 1999, 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and work, in a day-long peaceful protest of police brutality against fellow practitioners in the neighboring city of Tianjin. This book explains what Falun Gong is and where it came from.
In 1999, 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and work, in a day-long peaceful protest of police brutality against fellow practitioners in the neighboring city of Tianjin. This book explains what Falun Gong is and where it came from.
David Ownby is Professor of History and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the Université de Montréal, in Montreal, Canada. He is the author of Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China: The Formation of a Tradition, and the co-author, with Qin Baoqi and Susan J. Palmer, of The Millennium and the Turning of the Kalpa: The Historical Evolution of Apocalyptic Discourse in China and in the West.
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface * 1: Introduction * 2: A History for Falun Gong * 3: The Creation and Evolution of Qigong * 4: The Life and Times of Li Hongzhi in China, 1952-1995 * 5: Falun Gong outside of China: Fieldwork Among Diaspora Practitioners * 6: David Meets Goliath: The Conflict between Falun Gong and the Chinese State * Conclusion: Unpacking Contexts * Appendix 1 * Appendix 2 * Bibliography
* Preface * 1: Introduction * 2: A History for Falun Gong * 3: The Creation and Evolution of Qigong * 4: The Life and Times of Li Hongzhi in China, 1952-1995 * 5: Falun Gong outside of China: Fieldwork Among Diaspora Practitioners * 6: David Meets Goliath: The Conflict between Falun Gong and the Chinese State * Conclusion: Unpacking Contexts * Appendix 1 * Appendix 2 * Bibliography
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