The Craziness for Extra-Sensory Perception: Qigong Fever and the Science-Pseudoscience Debate in China

From 1979 to 1999, a heated dispute over the science or pseudoscience of extraordinary power or extrasensory perception (ESP) took place in China. During these two decades, many so-called “grandmasters” of ESP and Qigong emerged, and millions of people across the country studied with them; this was...

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Main Author: Li, Jianhui (Author)
Contributors: Fu, Zheng (Other)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
In: Zygon
Year: 2015, Volume: 50, Issue: 2, Pages: 534-547
Further subjects:B extraordinary power or extrasensory perception (ESP)
B science-pseudoscience debate
B China
B Qigong Fever
Online Access: Volltext (doi)