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"""Its detailed stories, further, provide an excellent resource for teaching about the multiple and unexpected trajectories of the Chinese Communist revolution at the local level, which insists on the Maoist revolution as both destructive but equally generative for religious life in China."" -- Joshua Tan, Reading Religion ""Overall, the community of scholars studying modern Chinese religions will greatly benefit from this careful research on religion and politics in a mostly rural corner of China during the under-researched Maoist era. There are some unexpected findings that deserve reflection and will make us rethink certain assumptions."" -- Mayfair Yang , Review of Religion and Chinese Society"

Overall, the community of scholars studying modern Chinese religions will greatly benefit from this careful research on religion and politics in a mostly rural corner of China during the under-researched Maoist era. There are some unexpected findings that deserve reflection and will make us rethink certain assumptions. * Mayfair Yang, Review of Religion and Chinese Society *

Its detailed stories, further, provide an excellent resource for teaching about the multiple and unexpected trajectories of the Chinese Communist revolution at the local level, which insists on the Maoist revolution as both destructive but equally generative for religious life in China. * Joshua Tan, Reading Religion * Overall, the community of scholars studying modern Chinese religions will greatly benefit from this careful research on religion and politics in a mostly rural corner of China during the under-researched Maoist era. There are some unexpected findings that deserve reflection and will make us rethink certain assumptions. * Mayfair Yang, Review of Religion and Chinese Society *

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Xiaoxuan Wang is a historian of modern and late imperial China. His research interests include communal religion, Christianity, and the Chinese diaspora in Europe and the US. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2015.

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