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The cultural economy of Falun Gong in China : a rhetorical perspective / Xiao Ming.

By: Series: Studies in rhetoric/communicationPublication details: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 140 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611172072
  • 1611172071
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cultural economy of Falun Gong in China.DDC classification:
  • 322/.10951 22
LOC classification:
  • BP605.F36 X56 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The rise of Falun Gong -- Challenging contemporary political culture: Falun Gong's departure from Marxist materialism, authoritarianism, and scientism -- Why is Falun Gong popular? -- As powerful as weapons: the use of tropes as ideological instruments -- "Wildfire won't wipe it out-- spring wind blows it back": the transfiguration of the political sensibility of the Chinese people.
Summary: A firsthand account of the power of rhetoric to establish and challenge cultural controls in modern China.
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The rise of Falun Gong -- Challenging contemporary political culture: Falun Gong's departure from Marxist materialism, authoritarianism, and scientism -- Why is Falun Gong popular? -- As powerful as weapons: the use of tropes as ideological instruments -- "Wildfire won't wipe it out-- spring wind blows it back": the transfiguration of the political sensibility of the Chinese people.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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A firsthand account of the power of rhetoric to establish and challenge cultural controls in modern China.

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