Taiwanese pilgrimage to China : ritual, complicity, community / DJ W. Hatfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hatfield, D. J. W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taiwanese--China--Fujian Sheng--Migrations.

Taiwanese.

Taiwanese--China--Fujian Sheng--Rites and ceremonies.

Taiwanese--China--Fujian Sheng--Social conditions.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages--China--Fujian Sheng.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Social conditions.

Rites and ceremonies.

China--Fujian Sheng.

Fujian Sheng (China)--Religious life and customs.

Fujian Sheng (China).

Fujian Sheng (China)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

x, 275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Summary:

This book examines the pilgrimages to China from Taiwan in the late 1980s and early 1990s and offers a wide-ranging account of urban planning statements, arguments about ritual propriety, and the material culture of pilgrimage. Taiwanese Pilgrimage to China argues that as Taiwanese pilgrims and their Chinese hosts translated values produced in ritual contexts into the terms of economic and political reform, they became complicit in a shared project of composing historical truth. With its attention to pilgrimages at a possible center of geopolitical conflict, Taiwanese Pilgrimage to China provides an account of how shared frameworks for action grow and advances anthropological understandings of conflict resolution.

Contents:

Introduction: complication and deferral

Heat and noise

Fabrication and commitment

Vignette: remembering a movement

Reluctance and conversion

Objects and institutions

Interlude: enjoyment and sincerity

Itineraries and structures

Techniques and forgeries

Curiosity and commitment.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230616035

0230616038

OCLC:

318716181