Tension between the Chinese Government and Transnational Qigong Groups: Management by the State and Their Dissemination Overseas
After the suppression of Falun Gong in 1999, the Chinese government carried out large-scale clean-up and rectification activities against a number of qigong groups in China. As a result, founders of some of the suppressed qigong organizations - some of whom had gone abroad earlier - started teaching...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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| In: |
Annual review of the sociology of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Pages: 194-209 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Qi gong
/ Spiritual movement
/ Transnationaization
B Falun Gong |
| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements KBM Asia |
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| Summary: | After the suppression of Falun Gong in 1999, the Chinese government carried out large-scale clean-up and rectification activities against a number of qigong groups in China. As a result, founders of some of the suppressed qigong organizations - some of whom had gone abroad earlier - started teaching their qigong practices in foreign countries. These qigong groups found practitioners and supporters among Chinese immigrants and overseas Chinese. Non-Chinese are also attracted to their activities. Based on case studies of Falun Gong, Puti Gong, and Tian Gong, this article explores the emergence and development of transnational spiritual qigong networks, their diasporic existence and relationships to the home country. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annual review of the sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004443327_012 |