Resistance, Chaos and Control in China : Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese Ghosts and Tiananmen

Compares those active resistance movements which burst into public view in China and "cultural resistance", which instead lies unspoken in everyday action. This book argues that certain areas of life defuse attempts at cultural domination by resisting and dissolving all unified interpretation. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Resistance....Pages 3-15 Saturation and Potentials....Pages 16-29 Front Matter....Pages 31-31 Jesus’s Brother and the Chinese Periphery....Pages 33-49 Saturating the Movement: God Gets Power....Pages 50-68 Too Many Voices....Pages 69-85 Precipitation and Institution: The Taiping Rises Up....Pages 86-110 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 Hot and Noisy Religion....Pages 113-128 Saturated Ghosts and Social Change in Taiwan....Pages 129-153 Failed Precipitations....Pages 154-168 The Limits to Cultural Domination....Pages 169-183 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 Institutions of Control, Institutions Beyond Control....Pages 187-204 Irony, Cynicism, and Potential Resistance....Pages 205-224 Back Matter....Pages 225-255