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Superstitious RegimesRebecca Nedostup

Superstitions & Folk Belief

Superstitious Regimes

Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity

by Rebecca Nedostup

A history of the Nationalist government's campaigns against 'superstition' in late-1920s and 1930s China. Nedostup shows how the new category of mixin was used to reorganise temples, festivals and religious specialists in the name of modernity.

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