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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0082-5433
- eISSN
- 1568-5322
- DOI
- 10.1163/008254308X385987
- Publisher site
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Abstract
Book Reviews / T’oung Pao 94 (2008) 360-421 415 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/008254308X385987 Telling Stories. Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History . By Barend ter Haar, Sinica Leidensia, Volume LXXI. Leiden / Boston, Brill, 2006. ix + 378 pp. 7 Tables, 10 Ill., 5 Maps, Bibliography, Index. ISBN 90-04-14844-2 (hb) In this fascinating and erudite volume, Barend ter Haar adds yet another fi nely crafted brick to the edifi ce of his scholarly achievements, once again employing the methods of traditional sinology to go beyond the assumptions, conceits, and limitations of traditional sinologists. Th at this approach can be useful to histori- ans and political scientists has been richly illustrated by the author’s fi rst two books on the White Lotus and the Triads, respectively. ˄ In these volumes, ter Haar crafted a research methodology that allowed him to read the White Lotus and the Triads from the perspective of popular religion and, more broadly, popular cul- ture, liberating these groups from the meta-narratives of heterodoxy, nationalism, rebellion and revolution imposed on them by modern scholars, Chinese and Western alike. Sun Yat-sen was of course free to celebrate the precocious nationa- lism of the
Journal
T'oung Pao – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2008