Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain - by Di Wang (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This is the first book-length treatment of the Paoge--a violent secret society located in a rural village near Chengdu, China. The book uses a filicide within the society as a starting point to examine the environment, history, culture, and organization of the Paoge and the structures of local power in 1940s rural Sichuan.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This is the first book-length treatment of the Paoge-a violent secret society located in a rural village near Chengdu, China. The book uses a filicide within the society as a starting point to examine the environment, history, culture, and organization of the Paoge and the structures of local power in 1940s rural Sichuan.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain</i> is a far-reaching contribution to scholarship on secret societies, local governance, popular culture, and rural society in the first half of China's twentieth century that deserves to be widely read, by both specialists and nonspecialists alike.--Benno R. Weiner "<i>Twentieth-Century China</i>"<br><br>Di Wang's rich volume on the Sichuan Paoge offers a major contribution to the history of Chinese secret societies. Based in part on the fascinating thesis of a sociology student at Yenching University, the study brilliantly illuminates the complex linkages between rural society and culture, the limits of local government, and Western-inspired intellectual efforts to arrive at a new understanding of peasant life.--David Ownby "author of <i>Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China</i>"<br><br>Every once in a blue moon, this reviewer finishes a book and thinks: 'Now this is the kind of book I aspire to write.' Di Wang's <i>Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain</i> is one of those rare books....Full of pathos and interwoven with complex narratives, <i>Violence and Order</i> is rich in anthropological and sociological data collected in the 1930s and 1940s, and complete with entertaining and humanizing historical anecdotes.--Kelly Hammond "<i>China Review International</i>"<br><br>Wang has made an impressive contribution to our understanding of Chinese secret societies, specifically the Paoge....this book is highly readable and is a welcome addition to the historiography of modern China.--Hongyan Xiang "<i>Pacific Affairs</i>"<br><br>Without doubt, Di Wang's new book represents an excellent example of a microhistory writing in the field of modern Chinese history.--Shaofan An "<i>Frontiers of History in China</i>"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Di Wang</b> is Professor of History at the University of Macau. He is the author of <i>The Teahouse: Small Business, Everyday Culture, and Public Politics in Chengdu, 1900-1950</i> (Stanford, 2008).
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