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Qigong fever : body, science, and utopia in China / David A. Palmer.
Van Pelt Library RA781.8 .P36 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palmer, David A., 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Qi gong.
- Qi gong--Social aspects.
- Qi gong--Political aspects.
- Falun gong exercises.
- Breathing Exercises.
- Social aspects.
- China.
- History, 20th Century.
- Medicine, Chinese Traditional.
- Politics.
- Religion and Medicine.
- Medical Subjects:
- Breathing Exercises.
- China.
- History, 20th Century.
- Medicine, Chinese Traditional.
- Politics.
- Religion and Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- 1 The Birth of Modern Qigong, 1949-64 29
- 2 Political Networks and the Formation of the Qigong Sector 46
- 3 The Grandmasters 86
- 4 Qigong Scientism 102
- 5 Qigong Fever 136
- 6 Controversy and Crisis 158
- 7 Control and Rationalisation 183
- 8 Militant Qigong: The Emergence of Falungong 219
- 9 Falungong Challenges the CCP 241
- Epilogue: The Collapse of the Qigong Movement 278
- Appendix On the Sources Used for this Study 307.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-344) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780231140669
- 0231140665
- OCLC:
- 70267224
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