© Columbia University Press
Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China
March, 2007
Cloth, 320 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14066-9
$35.50
"“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
"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