Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist
In this parallel and often paradoxical process, the Party attacked ” that had long supported the foundations of Chinese religious life. Moreover, revolutionary art and literature revamped old narratives of female ghosts and ritual exorcism to inject the people with a new masculinist vision of the Party-state endowed with both scientific potency and the heavenly language and symbolism in Chinese religion thus remained central to inspiring pathos, ethos, and logos for the revolution.