Grassroots Charisma: Four Local Leaders in China

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
1 Introduction
	Gender and religious authority in China
	Mingming and Stephan
	The structure and content of the book
	States and local histories
	Retelling other people\'s stories
	The authority of religion and its politics
2 Charisma
	Max Weber on charisma
	Two anthropologists on Western charisma
	Other traditions of charisma
	The juncture of times and historicity
PART I Meifa
	3 Meifa and its festivals in southern Fujian
		Fa Zhu Gong
		Reconstructing the history of Meifa
		An annual cycle and its wider world
		The economy and organisation of festival ritual
		Twentieth-century adaptations
		A local history
	4 Revolution, fortune and respect: Darkface (Wansheng)
		The pivot of Wansheng\'s story
		Being a good cadre
		The Cultural Revolution and the cult of Mao
		The turning point
		Towards rehabilitation
	5 Revitalisation of Meifa\'s identity
		Authority and force
		On the language of respect
PART II Shiding
	6 Shiding and its temple
		The General
		Interlude
		The Immortal
		The tension between temple management and public festivals
		A place in its own authority
	7 Writing and inspiration: the story of Dark Wood (Wumu)
		Spirit-writing
		A career of charisma
		The ritual of writing
		Canonisation
		Inspiration with many authors
		One and many dictators
		Creation in a field of intentions
	8 The location of face: Lin Qingbiao
		Custom reform
		Post-war revitalisation
		A rough tongue and an upright character
		Face, place and story
	9 Reform and refinement: Gao Bineng
		A good official
		Gao Bineng\'s version of the Immortal
		A change of authority
		A new face for Shiding
		Politics, religion and personal authority
	10 Gao Bineng at ninety: charismatic authority and the new politics of Taiwan
		Self-composition
		The politics of Taiwan and its martyrs
		A politics of culture and community
		Authority and respect in Shiding
PART III Conclusions
	11 Charisma in Shiding and Meifa
		Shiding and Meifa as places in politics of culture
	12 The dispersal of charisma under a national canopy
		A final word
Notes
References
Index