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<p>Most commentators imagine contemporary China to be monolithic, atheistic, and materialist, and wholly divorced from its earlier customs, but Kenneth Dean combines evidence from historical texts and extensive fieldwork to reveal an entirely different picture. Since 1979, when the Chinese government relaxed some of its most stringent controls on religion, villagers in the isolated areas of Southeast China have maintained an "underground" effort to restore traditional rituals and local cults.</p

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Author

Kenneth Dean, 1956-

Publisher

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691044736

Category

religious

Subjects

Religion, Taoism

Rating

3.4 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13