The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao PDF
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ALSO BY IAN JOHNSON A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China Contents Cover Also by Ian Johnson Title Page Copyright Epigraph Cast of Characters Map PART I: The Moon Year 1 Beijing: The Tolling Bell 2 Ritual: The Lost Middle 3 Shanxi: First Night 4 Chengdu: Long Live Auntie Wei PART II: Awakening of the Insects 5 Ritual: Awakening the Past 6 Beijing: You Can’t Explain It 7 Ritual: The Caged Master 8 Practice: Learning to Breathe PART III: Clear and Bright 9 Ritual: Martyrs 10 Shanxi: The Buried Books 11 Chengdu: Good Friday 12 Beijing: Ascending the Mountain PART IV: Summer Harvest 13 Chengdu: Recitation 14 Practice: Learning to Walk 15 Ritual: New Star 16 Beijing: The Flower Lady 17 Shanxi: Source of the Divine PART V: Mid-Autumn 18 Practice: Learning to Sit 19 Beijing: The Sacred Slum 20 Ritual: The New Leader 21 Chengdu: The New Calvinists PART VI: Winter Solstice 22 Practice: Following the Moon 23 Shanxi: City People 24 Beijing: The Great Hermit 25 Ritual: Eastern Lightning 26 Chengdu: Searching for Jesus PART VII: Leap Year 27 Ritual: The Fragrant Dream 28 Chengdu: Entering the City 29 Shanxi: Ghost Burial 30 Beijing: The Wondrous Peak Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Permissions Acknowledgments About the Author Heaven sees as my people see. Heaven hears as my people hear. —BOOK OF DOCUMENTS But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city. —HEBREWS 11:16 Cast of Characters THE BEIJING PILGRIMS Ni Zhenshan, or Old Mr. Ni: the family patriarch and head of a pilgrimage association that runs a shrine on Miaofengshan, Beijing’s holiest site. Ni Jincheng: the older son who becomes a reclusive Buddhist. Ni Jintang: the younger son who helps run the pilgrimage association. Qi Huimin: the tough manager of the association and devout believer. Wang Defeng: the Communist Party official who led the reconstruction of Miaofengshan and remains its influential manager. Chen Deqing, or Old Mrs. Chen: founder of a shrine on Miaofengshan and patron saint of a summertime pilgrimage to the Temple of the Central Peak. THE SHANXI DAOISTS Li Bin: the ninth-generation Daoist yinyang man, or funeral master, fortune-teller, and geomancer. He moves into the city against his father’s wishes. Li Manshan, or Old Mr. Li: the father of Li Bin, he stays in the family’s ancestral village. Li Qing: the Li family’s late patriarch, who revived traditions after the Cultural Revolution. THE CHENGDU CHRISTIANS Wang Yi: the former human rights lawyer and pastor of Early Rain Reformed Church. Jiang Rong: Wang Yi’s wife and early convert to Christianity. Zhang Guoqing: Early Rain’s liaison to marginal groups in society. Zha Changping: the cerebral pastor of the Spring of Life Reformed Church. Peng Qiang: former entrepreneur and Communist Youth League member who runs the Grace and Blessings Reformed Church. Ran Yunfei: “Bandit Ran,” a mercurial essayist and Chengdu’s best-known public thinker, who is drawn to Christianity. THE MASTERS Nan Huai-chin: Buddhist meditation guru and interpreter of Chinese classics, he lives in a hermitage on Lake Tai. Wang Liping: charismatic practitioner of a Daoist meditation technique called neidan, or internal alchemy, who teaches courses in the caves of southern China. Qin Ling: Wang’s chief disciple in Beijing. Xiao Weijia: Qin’s husband and scion of an important Communist Party family. PART I THE MOON YEAR
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