Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China

David A. Palmer

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March, 2007
Cloth, 320 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14066-9
$40.00

Acknowledgments

Abbreviation

Introduction

1. The Birth of Modern Qigong, 1949-64

2. Political Networks and the Formation of the Qigong Sector

3. The Grandmasters

4. Qigong Scientism

5. Qigong Fever

6. Controversy and Crisis

7. Control and Rationalisation

8. Militant Qigong: The Emergence of Falungong

9. Falungong Challenges the CCP

Epilogue: The Collapse of the Qigong Movement

Conclusion

Appendix: On the Sources Used for this Study

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian History
• Asian Religion

About the Author

David A. Palmer is adjunct professor of anthropology and religious studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and research fellow at the Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris) and was the Eileen Barker Fellow in Religion and Contemporary Society at the London School of Economics.

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