© Columbia University Press
Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China
March, 2007
Cloth, 320 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14066-9
$40.00
"“A powerful historical, political, cultural, and sociological analysis of the Qigong movement and its relationship to the state... Essential.” -Choice" — Choice
"A brilliant piece of scholarship . . . it is to be hoped that this excellent book reaches a wide readership." — David Ownby, Pacific Affairs
"The most comprehensive volume published on the Qigong movement in contemporary China." — Gareth Fisher, Journal of Chinese Religions
"[A] remarkable study . . . the best work in its field." — Journal of Social History
"This is a pathbreaking study, elegantly written and meticulously researched. It constitutes the first thorough analysis of qigong and its many mutations between state and society in China and offers an original interpretation of the suppression of the Falungong movement in 1999. Qigong Fever is indispensable to the field of Chinese studies but also to the more general topics of religion and modernity." — Frank Dikötter, School of Oriental and African Studies, author of The Discourse of Race in Modern China
"Critically important; an exemplary piece of scholarship. Quite simply, if one does not understand the qigong movement in all its complexity, then one cannot understand post-1949 China. David A. Palmer has built the foundation upon which all future conversations on this subject will be built." — Marlowe Hood, Agence France Presse