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Qigong Fever Body, Science, and Utopia in China

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ISBN-10: 0231140665

ISBN-13: 9780231140669

Edition: 2007

Authors: David A. Palmer, Michael J. Dwyer

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Qigong mdash;a regimen of body, breath, and mental training exercisesmdash;was one of the most widespread cultural and religious movements of late-twentieth-century urban China. The practice was promoted by senior Communist Party leaders as a uniquely Chinese healing tradition and as a harbinger of a new scientific revolution, yet the movement's mass popularity and the almost religious devotion of its followers led to its ruthless suppression. In this absorbing and revealing book, David A. Palmer relies on a combination of historical, anthropological, and sociological perspectives to describe the spread of the qigongcraze and its reflection of key trends that have shaped China since 1949,…    
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Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 3/27/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

David A. Palmer is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and fellow of the Centre for Anthropological Research at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China, among other books.

He practices architecture & interior design in New York City & elsewhere. He has written on the history of American architecture for Traditional Building & The Classicist.

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Birth of Modern Qigong, 1949-64
Political Networks and the Formation of the Qigong Sector
The Grandmasters
Qigong Scientism
Qigong Fever
Controversy and Crisis
Control and Rationalisation
Militant Qigong: The Emergence of Falungong
Falungong Challenges the CCP
Epilogue: The Collapse of the Qigong Movement
Conclusion
On the Sources Used for this Study
Bibliography
Index