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Paperback / softback. New. De Jiao (""Teaching of Virtue"") is a China-born religious movement, based on spirit-writing and rooted in the tradition of the ""halls for good deeds,"" which emerged in Chaozhou during the Sino-Japanese war. The book relates the fascinating process of its spread throughout Southeast Asia in the 1950s, and, more recently, from Thailand and Malaysia to post-Maoist China and the global world. Through a richly-documented multi-site ethnography of De Jiao congregations in the PRC, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand, Bernard Formoso offers valuable insights into the adaptation of Overseas Chinese to sharply contrasted national polities, and the projective identity they build with relation to China. De Jiao is of special interest with regard to its organization and strategies which strongly reflect the managerial habits and entrepreneurial ethos of the Overseas Chinese businessmen. It has also…
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de Jiao - A Religious Movement in Contemporary China and Overseas: Purple Qi from the East Paperback - 2010
by Bernard Formoso
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- Title de Jiao - A Religious Movement in Contemporary China and Overseas: Purple Qi from the East
- Author Bernard Formoso
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher NUS Press, Singapore.
- Date 2010
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9789971694920 / 9971694921
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Chinese - Foreign countries - Ethnic identity, China - Religion - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010353133
- Dewey Decimal Code 299.51
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Singapore Univ Pr, 2010. Paperback. New. 259 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.
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