Grassroots Charisma

Four Local Leaders in China

• Author(s): Stephan Feuchtwang, Wang Mingming,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 224
• ISBN_10: 1136372091
  ISBN_13: 9781136372094
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Regional Studies ,

Description:... This book relates the stories of four leaders under very different political regimes: Colonial, Nationalist and Communist. The authors compare 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. The result is an intriguing study of the relationship between religious and political authority in a changing world.