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  1. Violence and order on the Chengdu Plain : the story of a secret brotherhood in rural China, 1939-1949

    Wang, Di, 1956-
    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]

    This is the first book-length treatment of the Paoge--a violent secret society located in a rural village near Chengdu, China. The book uses a filicide within the society as a starting point to examine the environment, history, culture, and organization of the Paoge and the structures of local power in 1940s rural Sichuan.In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter. Six years later, Shen Baoyuan, a sociology student at Yenching University, arrived in the town to conduct fieldwork on the society that once held sway over local matters. She got to know Lei Mingyuan and his family, recording many rare insights about the murder and the Gowned Brothers' inner workings. Using the filicide as a starting point to examine the history, culture, and organization of the Gowned Brothers, Di Wang offers nuanced insights into the structures of local power in 1940s rural Sichuan. Moreover, he examines the influence of Western sociology and anthropology on the way intellectuals in the Republic of China perceived rural communities. By studying the complex relationship between the Gowned Brothers and the Chinese Communist Party, he offers a unique perspective on China's transition to socialism. In so doing, Wang persuasively connects a family in a rural community, with little overt influence on national destiny, to the movements and ideologies that helped shape contemporary China.

    Online EBSCO Academic Comprehensive Collection

  2. Pao ge : 1940 nian dai Chuan xi xiang cun de bao li yu zhi xu = Violence and order on the Chengdu Plain : the story of a secret brotherhood in rural China, 1939-1949

    Wang, Di, 1956-
    Di 1 ban. 第1版. - Beijing Shi : Beijing da xue chu ban she, 2018. 北京市 : 北京大學出版社, 2018.

    Pao ge shi 1949 nian zhi qian huo yue yu Changjiang zhong shang you de mi mi she hui zu zhi, qi ying xiang li yu Qing bang, Hong men bu xiang shang xia. Dang qi zui sheng shi, Chuan sheng yue you 70%cheng nian nan zi jia ru, ying xiang li ji yu ge ge jiao luo, zai Chuan jun, Xiang jun zhong ying xiang ju da, ye shi Qing mo ge ming zhong de zhong yao li liang.

  3. Violence and order on the Chengdu Plain : the story of a secret brotherhood in rural China, 1939-1949

    Wang, Di, 1956-
    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.

    In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter. Six years later, Shen Baoyuan, a sociology student at Yenching University, arrived in the town to conduct fieldwork on the society that once held sway over local matters. She got to know Lei Mingyuan and his family, recording many rare insights about the murder and the Gowned Brothers' inner workings. Using the filicide as a starting point to examine the history, culture, and organization of the Gowned Brothers, Di Wang offers nuanced insights into the structures of local power in 1940s rural Sichuan. Moreover, he examines the influence of Western sociology and anthropology on the way intellectuals in the Republic of China perceived rural communities. By studying the complex relationship between the Gowned Brothers and the Chinese Communist Party, he offers a unique perspective on China's transition to socialism. In so doing, Wang persuasively connects a family in a rural community, with little overt influence on national destiny, to the movements and ideologies that helped shape contemporary China.

    Online EBSCO University Press

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