{"product_id":"the-path-to-sun-village-gods-ghosts-and-people-in-a-post-revolutionary-society-9789004348714","title":"The Path to Sun Village: Gods, Ghosts, and People in a Post-Revolutionary Society","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a product of over ten years of work. It addresses intermarriage circles, transformations of customs, the rise and fall supernatural forces, power relations among gods, ghosts and people in “synchronic communities,” and tongxiangtongye (same hometown, same industry) economies based on rural sociocultural networks in the author’s native Sun Village in Putian. The author explores the details of microhistory by examining changes and continuities in everyday life to show the grand through the minute.  This exciting book possesses important theoretical significance, including reflections on binary frameworks such as state vs. society and tradition vs. modernity or revolution, along with new arguments about commonly used concepts such as “the cultural nexus of power” and “the hollowing-out of the rural.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: A Village Path alongside China’s Highway of Development List of Illustrations  1 Intermarriage Spheres and Affinal Networks  Part 1: Intermarriage Spheres: Social Change and the Expansion and Contraction of Intermarriage Regions   The Rural Social Space of Sun Village   The Situation of Intermarriage and Its Revision of “Common Sense”   Why the Distance of Intermarriage is Shrinking  Part 2: Affinal Networks: Continuity and Transformation in the Conventions of Marriage and Affinal Relations   Old Conventions in the Mao Era: Protecting Traditional Core Values of Marriage and the Family    “Walking Rites”: The Goodness of Uniting Two Surnames   Changing Conventions in the “Era of Black Marriages” and Thereafter   Conclusion: From “Many Branches” to “Deep Roots”  2 The Realms of Yin and Yang  Part 1: Synchronic Communities: Gods, Ghosts, and People in a Post-revolutionary Era    From the Imperial to the Post-revolutionary Era   “We are Both Wretched Vagabonds in a Strange Land”   “Fallen to the Earth and Crushed to Dust, Only the Fragrance Remains”   When the Boundary between Yin and Yang is Breached: The Persistence of Affective Bonds between Ghosts and the Living   Synchronic Communities  Appendix to Part 1 of Chapter 2  part 2: Efficacy Depending on Faith: The Scope and Cycles of Tongji Power   The Vast Distance between Heaven and the Living   “My Identity as a Woman”   Preference for Secular over Supernatural Decision-Making   The Authority of Each Medium Lasts Two or Three Years  Part 3: Pretending that Gods Exist: Relations between People and Gods in Collective Rituals   Block Divination   Yuanxiao at Yongjin Temple    Welcoming the Gods   “Going Out to Run around the Territory”   “Running Across the Arena” and “Calming Down to Dismount”   “Selecting the Next Year’s Ritual Heads”   Distributing “Boy Biscuits”   The Utilitarianization of Supernatural Relations in Collective Rituals  Part 4: A Thin Interface: The “Balanced Rationality” among Gods, People, and Horses   Keeping Pace to Entertain Gods: From “Using Horses for Work” to “Using Horses for Ritual”   The Tracks of a Thousand Troops and Ten Thousand Horses: “Horse Agents” and “Horse-Leaders”   In the Spring, Hooves Gallop Gaily: Horse-Leaders, Horse Markets, and Clients during Yuanxiao   Those on Horseback Cannot See the Situation on the Ground: Horse-Leaders, Horses, and Gods   Society and Culture as Matrix  3 Building Roads: “The Cultural Nexus of Power”  Accounting and the State  The Weakening of Popular Authority before 1949  Political Consolidation and the Resurgence of Religious Authority (1949–1985)  The Interaction between Popular Authorities and State Brokers (1986 to the Present)  4 “Beyond the Boundary”: A Countermovement to the Hollowing-out of Rural China  Social Networks in a Peripheral Region  From Periphery to Center: The On-site Concentration of Dajin Resources  Gaining the Upper Hand through Hometown-Based Economic Networks   The Mutual Activation of Rural Social Resources and Tongxiang Tongye Economy   A Countermovement against the “Hollowing-Out” of Rural China  Appendix: A Micro-History of Rural Society: Sun Village before and during the Revolutionary Period  i Livelihood  ii Epidemics  iii Clans  iv Water Resource Management  v “People’s Schools”  vi “Able-Bodied Men”  vii “Personages”  viii Modern Schools  ix Bandits  x Land Reform  xi “Fording the Famine”  xii The “Socialist Education” Campaign  xiii The Cultural Revolution  Postscript  Bibliography","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210723909975,"sku":"9789004348714","price":172.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-path-to-sun-village-gods-ghosts-and-people-in-a-post-revolutionary-society-9789004348714","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}