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Author:

Wang, Di, 1956- author.

Title:

Violence and order on the Chengdu Plain : the story of a secret brotherhood in rural China, 1939-1949 / Di Wang.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xiv, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Subject:

Ge lao hui--History--20th century.
Ge lao hui.
Brotherhoods--Sichuan Sheng--Sichuan Sheng--History--20th century.
Secret societies--Sichuan Sheng--Sichuan Sheng--History--20th century.
Power (Social sciences)--Sichuan Sheng--Sichuan Sheng--History--20th century.
Filicide--Sichuan Sheng--Sichuan Sheng--History--20th century.
Sichuan Sheng (China)--Rural conditions--20th century.
Brotherhoods.
Filicide.
Power (Social sciences)
Rural conditions.
Secret societies.
China--Sichuan Sheng.
1900-1999
History.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

1503605302
9781503605305
1503604837
9781503604834

OCLC:

(OCoLC)999440528

LCCN:

2017032564

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)