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to parents, and a double standard of chastity for men and women, and favored equality of individuals in society. It opposed the traditional big family (parents and married chil- dren living together as a family unit) and advocated the Western small family system, the equality and independence of
screening of his travel documentary, A Trip through China. His story resembles the typical narrative spun by contemporary western adventurers about their travels among the ‘other.’ It may be larger than life and clearly Orientalist, but the frightening effect of moving images on early film audiences was
in self-cultivation by Patriarch Lü—this does not imply that Patriarch Lü instructed living adepts in this way.6 The second relates the case of a son of an elite family in Suzhou who becomes mad and lives as an anti- nomian ascetic, nicknamed Master Grass Robe, Suoyi xiansheng 蓑衣 先生, and rejects
) but existed already in medieval times through, notably, stories of visits to the netherworld, where the person brought back to life revealed to others what was told him by underworld gods. A secret encounter-type revelation is typically produced by virtuosi who seek the revelation by living as
the major participants in the editorial work of both Wendi quanshu and Lüzu quanshu were members of this shrine, including the major donor, Wang Shibi. Cai Laihe was a scion of a Suzhou scholarly family who dedicated his life to running religious projects, including cherishing the written word
growing prevalence of spirit-writing in general, but its place in the production of religious texts did change in a few decades: our focus here is the production of published revelations, not the prevalence of spirit-writing in everyday life. This chapter attempts to describe and explain such a turn
survive but to develop highly motivated teams of health workers. there has been much political and military analysis by scholars on the Yan’an period. the war led to visits to Yan’an by a number of american journalists, military and diplomatic personnel, several of whom published accounts of their
not go into a report! If there is doubt in your heart, do not put your brush to paper (辦案總要腳踏實地無憑據不入 詳有疑心不落筆)!”22 Ironically, this system designed to encourage truthfulness motivated officials to determine the resolution of a case from its very beginning and then conduct it subtly toward that end
development of the small groups in Northern China. In his path-breaking work van de Ven (1991) concludes that the CCP would have come to life irrespective of Soviet involvement. The atmosphere did encourage radical intellectuals to look for alternatives such as those provided by a Bolshevik party. However
former, an agnatic succession from brother to brother, on the basis of precedent in the depths of antiquity; another pressed for the latter, a filial succession, whereby a nephew could be adopted as his son. This view was also buttressed by canonical orthodoxy. While Han Chengdi was still living, Liu Xin