Political Pilgrimage during China's Cultural Revolution: The Case of Dazhai

During China's Cultural Revolution (1966-76) political pilgrimage was a tool for promoting the communist ideal of collectivism. This paper explores the creation in the 1960s by Chairman Mao Zedong of one of the foremost sites of political pilgrimage, the small agricultural commune of Dazhai in...

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Main Author: McIntosh, Ian (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dublin Institute of Technology [2018]
In: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 38-49
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B China / Dazhai / Großer Sprung nach vorn / Political movement / Pilgrimage
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AG Religious life; material religion
KBM Asia
ZB Sociology
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Cultural Revolution
B Mao Zedong
B China
B commune
B Great Leap Forward
B Peasants
B Communism
B Chen Yonggui
B Dazhai
B Agriculture
B Altruism
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