This book examines the pilgrimages to China from Taiwan in the late 1980s and early 1990s and offers a wide-ranging account of urban planning statements, arguments about ritual propriety, and the material culture of pilgrimage. Taiwanese Pilgrimage to China argues that as Taiwanese pilgrims and their Chinese hosts translated values produced in ritual contexts into the terms of economic and political reform, they became complicit in a shared project of composing historical truth. With its attention to pilgrimages at a possible center of geopolitical conflict, Taiwanese Pilgrimage to China provides an account of how shared frameworks for action grow and advances anthropological understandings of conflict resolution.
Author(s): DJ W. Hatfield
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2009
Language: English
Commentary: Back cover
Pages: 288
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Note on Transliterations......Page 12
Introduction: Complication and Deferral......Page 14
1 Heat and Noise......Page 36
2 Fabrication and Commitment......Page 60
Vignette: Remembering a Movement......Page 94
3 Reluctance and Conversion......Page 98
4 Objects and Institutions......Page 128
Interlude: Enjoyment and Sincerity......Page 156
5 Itineraries and Structures......Page 164
6 Techniques and Forgeries......Page 196
7 Curiosity and Commitment......Page 226
Notes......Page 256
G......Page 264
M......Page 265
U......Page 266
Z......Page 267
Bibliography......Page 268
C......Page 280
D......Page 281
G......Page 282
L......Page 283
M......Page 284
P......Page 285
S......Page 286
V......Page 287
Z......Page 288
