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supplies a scholarly corrective to naive and uninformed Western assumptions that Falun Gong should be supported simply because it is opposed to the Chinese government Michael Dillon, Times Literary Supplement

Undergraduates will be able to grasp the book's main points, yet Ownby writes with more than enough insight, nuance, and sophistication to engage his fellow Sinologists. Scholars of Chinese religion will be challenged by Ownby's call to reevaluate the role of popular religious movements in the history of modern China. Journal of Chinese Religions supplies a scholarly corrective to naive and uninformed Western assumptions that Falun Gong should be supported simply because it is opposed to the Chinese government Michael Dillon, Times Literary Supplement

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David Ownby is Professor of History and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the Université de Montréal, in Montreal, Canada. He is the author of Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China: The Formation of a Tradition, and the co-author, with Qin Baoqi and Susan J. Palmer, of The Millennium and the Turning of the Kalpa: The Historical Evolution of Apocalyptic Discourse in China and in the West.

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