What is it about?
Many Chinese behavior like their ancestors. They still go to the sacred mountains to worship all kinds of gods for everything in daily life. Why? The paper describes and explains the above universal phenomenon in modern China to help readers better understand Chinese culture.
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Why is it important?
Many stakeholders get involved in the Worship in modern China, such as gods, individual, governments, even the whole nation. In other words, such worship is concerned about folk culture, religion practices, local economy and national politics.
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It took me five years to undertake the research. It is a wonderful experience for me to conduct the work field following the paper published. I hope this article could help the reader pay attention to the complicated religious phenomenon in China.
Yongyi Yue
Beijing Normal University
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This page is a summary of: The Nation-State, the Contract Responsibility System, and the Economy of Temple Incense: The Politics and Economics of a Temple Festival on a Landscaped Holy Mountain (民族国家、承包制与香火经济:景区化圣山庙会的政治-经济学), Rural China, September 2016, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/22136746-01302002.
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