Grassroots Charisma: Four Local Leaders in

This book relates the stories of four leaders under very different political regimes and compares Chinese notions of respect and inspiration with their equivalents in other religious and political histories of colonial and post-colonial modernity, thereby producing a thorough re-working of the idea of charisma.

List of illustrations

viii

Preface

ix

Introduction

1

(9)

Gender and religious authority in China

2

(1)

Mingming and Stephan

3

(2)

The structure and content of the book

5

(1)

States and local histories

6

(1)

Retelling other people's stories

7

(1)

The authority of religion and its politics

8

(2)

Charisma

10

(13)

Max Weber on charisma

11

(2)

Two anthropologists on Western charisma

13

(2)

Other traditions of charisma

15

(5)

The juncture of times and historicity

20

(3)

PART I Meifa

23

(56)

Meifa and its festivals in southern Fujian

25

(17)

Fa Zhu Gong

25

(4)

Reconstructing the history of Meifa

29

(1)

An annual cycle and its wider world

30

(4)

The economy and organisation of festival ritual

34

(1)

Twentieth-century adaptations

35

(5)

A local history

40

(2)

Revolution, fortune and respect: Darkface (Wansheng)

42

(21)

The pivot of Wansheng's story

43

(4)

Being a good cadre

47

(6)

The Cultural Revolution and the cult of Mao

53

(3)

The turning point

56

(2)

Towards rehabilitation

58

(5)

Revitalisation of Meifa's identity

63

(16)

Authority and force

73

(2)

On the language of respect

75

(4)

PART II Shiding

79

(78)

Shiding and its temple

81

(13)

The General

83

(2)

Interlude

85

(3)

The Immortal

88

(2)

The tension between temple management and public festivals

90

(3)

A place in its own authority

93

(1)

Writing and inspiration: the story of Dark Wood (Wumu)

94

(23)

Spirit-writing

95

(1)

A career of charisma

96

(3)

The ritual of writing

99

(4)

Canonisation

103

(4)

Inspiration with many authors

107

(5)

One and many dictators

112

(1)

Creation in a field of intentions

113

(4)

The location of face: Lin Qingbiao

117

(8)

Custom reform

118

(1)

Post-war revitalisation

119

(1)

A rough tongue and an upright character

120

(2)

Face, place and story

122

(3)

Reform and refinement: Gao Bineng

125

(17)

A good official

125

(3)

Gao Bineng's version of the Immortal

128

(1)

A change of authority

129

(7)

A new face for Shiding

136

(4)

Politics, religion and personal authority

140

(2)

Gao Bineng at ninety: charismatic authority and the new politics of Taiwan

142

(15)

Self-composition

142

(3)

The politics of Taiwan and its martyrs

145

(3)

A politics of culture and community

148

(5)

Authority and respect in Shiding

153

(4)

PART III Conclusions

157

(17)

Charisma in Shiding and Meifa

159

(6)

Shiding and Meifa as places in politics of culture

161

(4)

The dispersal of charisma under a national canopy

165

(9)

A final word

172

(2)

Notes

174

(20)

References

194

(6)

Index

200

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Grassroots Charisma: Four Local Leaders in China

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