LEADER 02653nam 22005054a 450 001 9910452179603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-73137-4 010 $a9786611731373 010 $a0-300-13317-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472051 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23049739 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000153193 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11158737 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000153193 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10391782 035 $a(PQKB)10818406 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420159 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420159 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170850 035 $a(OCoLC)923591629 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472051 100 $a20030911d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFalun gong$b[electronic resource] $ethe end of days /$fMaria Hsia Chang 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc 2004 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-10227-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 159-181) and indexes. 330 $bThe world first took notice of a religious group called Falun Gong on April 25, 1999, when more than 10,000 of its followers protested before the Chinese Communist headquarters in Beijing. Falun Gong investigates events in the wake of the demonstration: Beijings condemnation of the group as a Western, anti-Chinese force and doomsday cult, the sects continued defiance, and the nationwide campaign that resulted in the incarceration and torture of many Falun Gong faithful.Maria Hsia Chang discusses the Falun Gongs beliefs, including their ideas on cosmology, humanitys origin, karma, reincarnation, UFOs, and the coming apocalypse. She balances an account of the Chinese governments case against the sect with an evaluation of the credibility of those accusations. Describing Chinas long history of secret societies that initiated powerful uprisings and sometimes overthrew dynasties, she explains the Chinese governments brutal treatment of the sect. And she concludes with a chronicle of the ongoing persecution of religious groups in Chinaof which Falun Gong is only one of manyand the social conditions that breed the popular discontent and alienation that spawn religious millenarianism. 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a322/.1/0951 700 $aChang$b Maria Hsia$0957186 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452179603321 996 $aFalun gong$92168321 997 $aUNINA