TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wang,Di
TI  - Violence and order on the Chengdu Plain: the story of a secret brotherhood in rural China, 1939-1949 
SN  - 9781503605336
AV  - HS310 .V565 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Ge lao hui
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Brotherhoods
KW  - China
KW  - Sichuan Sheng
KW  - Secret societies
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Filicide
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction : two stories joined in the Chengdu Plain --; A public execution --; A local band of the Gowned Brothers --; Spirituality and customs --; Secret codes and language --; Disciplines and dominance --; A tenant farmer and Paoge master --; Entering the Paoge --; The decline of power --; A family crisis and a rural woman's fate --; Fall of the Paoge --; Looking for the storyteller --; Untangling Paoge myth --; Appendix 1 : Paoge ranks --; Appendix 2 : Lei family tree --; Appendix 3 : selected ritual/festival events --; Appendix 4 : Chinese texts of sayings and poems --; Appendix 5 : brief comments on texts, myth, and history; 2; b
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