Making Saints in Modern China
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 01, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780190494568
Description: Each chapter of this book offers a biography of a religious leader and a detailed discussion of his or her rise to sainthood over the course of China's twentieth century. Throughout, emphasis is on the creative and largely successful strategies deployed in the face of state indifference or hostility.