Enchanted Revolution Ghosts Shamans And Gender Politics In Chinese Communist Propaganda 19421953 Kang by Kang, Xiaofei 9780197654477, 0197654479 instant download after payment.

《迷幻革命》将宗教与性别置于中国共产党革命的中心舞台。书中分析了共产党在抗日战争时期，特别是在延安这一毛泽东革命圣地的第一次反封建迷信运动。该书提出，宗教不仅仅是革命的对手，它也作为一种模型，被党用来动员支持和构建合法性。在从农村偏远地区崛起并最终占据全国统治地位的过程中，共产党摧毁了曾支撑中国宗教生活的“迷信”。然而，与此同时，党的宣传却巧妙地利用了这些宗教资源，服务于其政治目的。在这一并行且充满矛盾的过程中，党的宣传力量依赖于对传统性别秩序和仪式结构中阴阳宇宙力量的重新诠释。此外，革命艺术和文学改造了关于女性鬼魂和仪式驱邪的传统叙事，塑造了一种新型的党国愿景：既具备科学力量，又承载天命。中国宗教中的性别化语言和符号，在激发革命情感、道德和逻辑上仍然扮演着至关重要的角色。宗教、性别与革命的交织，不仅具有毛泽东遗产在当代中国的历史和现实意义，也为我们理解全球政治中的宣传力量变革提供了重要的视角。（简介由GPT翻译）

Enchanted Revolution moves religion and gender to center stage in the Chinese Communist revolution. It examines the Communist Party’s first anti-superstition campaign in its wartime headquarters of Yan’an, the holy land of the Maoist revolution. The book argues that religion was not a mere adversary for the revolution; it also served as a model with which the Party mobilized support and constructed legitimacy. In its rise from rural backwaters to national dominance, the Party attacked “superstitions” that had supported the foundations of Chinese religious life. At the same time, Party propaganda co-opted the same religious resources for its own political ends. In this parallel and often paradoxical process, the persuasive power of Party propaganda relied heavily on recasting the cosmic forces of yin and yang that sustained the traditional gender hierarchy and ritual order. Furthermore, revolutionary art and literature revamped old narratives of female ghosts and ritual exorcism to inject the people with a new hegemonic vision of the Party-state endowed with both scientific potency and the heavenly mandate. Gendered language and symbolism in Chinese religion thus remained central to inspire pathos, ethos, and logos for the revolution. The interplay of religion, gender, and revolution holds historical and contemporary significance of the Maoist legacy in contemporary China. It also offers insights into the transformative power of propaganda in global politics.