The Cultural Economy of Falun Gong in China: A Rhetorical Perspective
Ming Xiao
Emerging in China in the early 1990s, Falun Gong is viewed by its supporters as a folk movement promoting the benefits of good health and moral cultivation. To the Chinese establishment, however, it is a dissident religious cult threatening political orthodoxy and national stability. The author, a Chinese national once involved in implementing Chinese cultural policies, examines the evolving relationship between Falun Gong and Chinese authorities in a revealing case study of the powerful public discourse between a pervasive political ideology and an alternative agenda in contention for cultural dominance.
Year:
2011
Publisher:
University of South Carolina Press
Language:
english
Pages:
152
ISBN 10:
1570039879
ISBN 13:
9781570039874
Series:
Studies in Rhetoric/Communication
File:
PDF, 475 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2011