Grassroots Charisma: Four Local Leaders in China (Routledge Studies on China in Transition)

ISBN: 0415244188

Author: Feuchtwang, Stephan

Condition: New

This book relates the stories of four leaders under very different political regimes: Colonial, Nationalist and Communist. The authors compare Chinese notions of respect and inspiration with their equivalents in other religious and political histories of colonial and post-colonial modernity, thereby producing a thorough re-working of the idea of charisma. The result is an intriguing study of the relationship between religious and political authority in a changing world.