Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953

by Xiaofei Kang

Enchanted Revolution moves religion and gender to center stage in the Chinese Communist revolution, examining the mobilizational dynamics of anti-superstition propaganda in support of the Communist Party's rise from rural backwaters to national dominance.

Xiaofei Kang argues that religion was not merely adversary for the revolutionaries-it also served as a model for the ways in which the Party mobilized support and constructed legitimacy. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197654479
• ISBN13: 9780197654477
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"