Xushui 1959 https://stephenjones.blog/xushui-ritual/

Commemorating trauma in China https://stephenjones.blog/2018/05/18/china-trauma/

My article on Guo Yuhua leads to several related posts on my blog—many collected under the Maoism tag in the sidebar.

For further alternative grass-roots accounts of Chinese society, see

• the films of Wang Bing and Ai Xiaoming on the labour camp system (China: commemorating trauma);
• the stories of Liao Yiwu (The corpse walker);
• thoughts on the brief of ethnography (see also fieldwork tag).

For the troubled maintenance of local ritual life under changing regimes:

• numerous posts on the Li family Daoists (category here, with basic subheads), based on my film and my book; for their experience of Maoism, see here.
• many posts deriving from my work on Gaoluo village (tag here), including A tribute to two ritual leaders and Women of Gaoluo;
• and just about all the field reports under Local ritual are relevant, including Xushui (of Great Leap Backward fame), and Xiongxian and Baiyangdian (of XiongAn development fame);
• as well as my introduction to the lowly shawm bands (Walking shrill).

On recent conflicts between state and society, see e.g.

• fatuous funeral directives in Shandong
• two Daoist debates: in Hunan, and Gansu.

In Guo Yuhua’s interview with Ian Johnson she gives short shrift to the Intangible Cultural Heritage—as do I. Some tasters among the numerous posts under the heritage tag in the sidebar:

• general background here
• the dreaded Hengshan Daoist Music Troupe
• Festivals: the official–folk continuum.

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For Chinese parallels with authoritarian regimes in Europe, see e.g. my posts on

• Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen
• the work of Philippe Sands
• the GDR (here and here)
• the Salazar regime
• gender and moral choices during and after the occupation of Paris.

Sachsenhausen https://stephenjones.blog/2018/04/27/sachsenhausen/

Lisbon 1939 https://stephenjones.blog/2018/05/14/lisbon-2/

For another handy digest on a variety of topics, see here.