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The temple of memories : history, power, and morality in a Chinese village / Jun Jing.
Penn Museum Library HN740.K365 J56 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jing, Jun, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Memory.
- Gansu Sheng (China)--Social conditions.
- Gansu Sheng (China).
- Kong family.
- Memory--Social aspects--China--Gansu Sheng.
- China--Gansu Sheng.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- This study focuses on the politics of memory in the village of Dachuan in northwest China, in which 85 percent of the villagers are surnamed Kong and believe themselves to be descendants of Confucius. It recounts how the village sought recovery from its suffering and forced resettlement in the Maoist era through the reconstruction of its Confucian temple.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804727562
- OCLC:
- 34564810
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