By Maria Hsia Chang
ISBN-10: 0300102275
ISBN-13: 9780300102277
ISBN-10: 0300133170
ISBN-13: 9780300133172
The realm first took discover of a non secular team known as Falun Gong on April 25, 1999, whilst greater than 10,000 of its fans protested sooner than the chinese language Communist headquarters in Beijing. Falun Gong investigates occasions within the wake of the demonstration: Beijing's condemnation of the crowd as a Western, anti-Chinese strength and doomsday cult, the sect's endured defiance, and the national crusade that ended in the incarceration and torture of many Falun Gong devoted. Maria Hsia Chang discusses the Falun Gong's ideals, together with their rules on cosmology, humanity's foundation, karma, reincarnation, UFOs, and the arriving apocalypse. She balances an account of the chinese language government's case opposed to the sect with an assessment of the credibility of these accusations. Describing China's lengthy historical past of mystery societies that initiated strong uprisings and occasionally overthrew dynasties, she explains the chinese language government's brutal therapy of the sect. and he or she concludes with a chronicle of the continued persecution of spiritual teams in China, of which Falun Gong is just one of many, and the social stipulations that breed the preferred discontent and alienation that spawn spiritual millenarianism.
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It was this hierarchy of superior-inferior relations that grounded society: each person had an assigned role, the performance and fulfillment of which would assure social order and harmony. Therein laid the basis of what became China’s canonical faith; its influence permeated the entire society. )—when the feudal system of the Zhou dynasty was breaking down. c. and was increasingly besieged by nomads from the north. As the power of the Zhou court waned, the nobles in the various domains or states grew increasingly restive.
E Thirty-year-old Liu Jiamin, died on January π, ≤≠≠∞, from lung injuries after police rammed a tube down her throat to break a hunger strike. E Thirty-three-year-old Li Mei, died in May ≤≠≠∞ in a ‘‘transformation school’’ in Laiyang, Shandong, after su√ering a broken spine and other injuries. E Thirty-three-year-old Li Changjun, holder of a master’s degree, was detained May ∞∏, ≤≠≠∞, after police caught him downloading and printing Falun Gong material from the Internet. He died a week later, his body covered with red bruises and scars, his neck and ears beaten purple.
Human passions developed instead in a measured, ordered, and rhythmic fashion. ∞≥ Filial piety was the preeminent principle of moral and religious life. The parent was a stern but benevolent patriarch to whom the child owed unquestioned obedience and devotion. Filial piety was generalized into ancestor worship: it was a public obligation for everyone to honor and pray to the souls of one’s forebears who could intercede with Heaven on behalf of the living. ∞∂ The emperor was to rule with wisdom, charity, and virtue over his children—the people—whose abject obeisance could be abrogated only if the emperor was found to be corrupt or evil.
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