The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China. By Thomas David Dubois

摘要

The book is based on Dubois’s 2001 dissertation. Covering a historicalnperiod from mid-nineteenth throughout twentieth century, he is mainly inter-nested in how major social and political changes over the 150 years of modernnChinese history were experienced and processed locally. He studies the centralnrole of local cults and sectarian activities in the villages of Cangzhou county