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  • De Jiao - A Religious Movement in Contemporary China and Overseas: Purple Qi from the East
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  • Bernard Formoso
  • 2010
  • Published by: NUS Press Pte Ltd
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De Jiao ("Teaching of Virtue") is a China-born religious movement, based on spirit-writing and rooted in a tradition of "halls for good deeds", that emerged in Chaozhou during the Sino-Japanese war. This book relates the fascinating process of its spread throughout Southeast Asia in the 1950s, and, more recently, from Thailand and Malaysia back to post-Maoist China and elsewhere. Through a richly-documented multi-site ethnography of De Jiao congregations in the PRC, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand, Bernard Formoso examines the adaptation of Overseas Chinese to sharply contrasted national polities, and the projective identity they build in relation to China. De Jiao is of special interest because its organization and strategies strongly reflect the managerial habits and entrepreneurial ethos of Overseas Chinese businessmen. It also utilizes symbols of the Chinese civilisation whose greatness it claims to champion from the periphery. A central theme of the study is the role that such a religious movement may play to promote new forms of identification to the motherland as substitutes for loosened genealogical links. The book also offers a comprehensive interpretation of the contemporary practice of fu ji spirit-writing, and reconsiders the relation between unity and diversity in Chinese religion.

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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright
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  1. CONTENTS
  2. p. vii
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  1. LIST OF TABLES
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  1. LIST OF MAPS
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  1. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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  1. PREFACE
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  1. A NOTE ON CHINESE ROMANIZATION AND THE USE OF PATRONYMIC TERMS
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  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. pp. 1-23
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  1. CHAPTER I: Purple qi Coming from the East
  2. pp. 24-55
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  1. CHAPTER II: Spread to the Southern Seas: Th e Buddhist Horizon
  2. pp. 56-78
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  1. CHAPTER III: Spread to the Southern Seas: Facing the Malay Muslims
  2. pp. 79-111
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  1. CHAPTER IV: De Jiao’s Unity and Diversity
  2. pp. 112-138
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  1. CHAPTER V: Th e Flying Vermilion Bird
  2. pp. 139-174
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  1. CHAPTER VI: Back to the Motherland and Towards the Global World
  2. pp. 175-207
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  1. CONCLUSION
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  1. APPENDIX
  2. pp. 217-219
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  1. NOTES
  2. pp. 220-235
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  1. GLOSSARY
  2. pp. 236-245
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  1. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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  1. INDEX
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