Ritual alliances of the Putian plain / / by Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental studies. Section four, China Handbuch der Orientalistik, v. 23/1-2 =
• Author: Dean, Kenneth, 1956-
• TeilnehmendeR: Zheng, Zhenman.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China 23/2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1092 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction. The Ritual Alliances Of The Putian Plains /; Part One. Overview Of The Irrigated Alluvial Putian Plains /; Part Two. The Southern Irrigated PlaIN 南洋水利系统 /; Part Three. The Northern Irrigated Plain 北洋水利系统 /; Part Four. The Jiuliyang Irrigated Plain 九里洋水利系统 /; List Of Gods /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1282949675; 9786612949678; 904744017X
• ISSN: 0169-9520
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman.

Making ingenious use of a wide variety of sources, and old as well as modern technical resources, Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman here set a new standard for an histoire totale for a coherently well-defined cultural region in China.At the same time it deals in-depth with the ongoing negotiation of modernity in Chinese village rituals. Over the past thirty years, local popular religion has been revived and re-invented in the villages of the irrigated alluvial plain of Putian, Fujian, China. Volume 1 provides a historical introduction to the formation of 153 regional ritual alliances made up of 724 villages. Early popular cults, Ming lineages, Qing multi-village alliances, late Qing spirit-medium associations, 20th century state attacks on local religion, and the role of Overseas Chinese and local communities in rebuilding the temple networks are discussed. Volume 2 surveys the current population, lineages, temples, gods, and annual rituals of these villages. Maps of each ritual alliance, the distribution of major cults and lineages, are included. Find information about a film related to the book here.