Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History (Harvard Contemporary Zhang Yihe 领导日本建立近代国家

领导日本建立近代国家

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memories and madness

From nationally bestselling author Marjan Kamali

Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History (Harvard Contemporary Zhang Yihe 领导日本建立近代国家In the early twentieth century, scholars around the world believed that superstition belonged to a bygone era. Yet despite their confident predictions, superstitious beliefs have endured. Perhaps nowhere has the history of superstition been more prolonged and tumultuous than in China. From the late nineteenth century to the present day, intellectuals and politicians have denigrated practices like divination, ancestor worship, and geomancy as