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Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China
by David A. Palmer
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Qigong Fever Body Science and Utopia in Qigong Fever Body Science and Utopia in China and millions of other books are available for Amazon Kindle Learn more Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free Kindle App Qigong Fever Columbia University Press Qigong a regimen of body breath and mental training exercises was one of the most widespread cultural and religious movements of latetwentiethcentury urban China The practice was promoted by senior Communist Party leaders as a uniquely Chinese healing tradition and as a harbinger of a new scientific revolution yet the movements mass popularity and the almost religious devotion of its followers led to its ruthless suppression Qigong Fever Body Science and Utopia in China David A Qigong Fever Body Science and Utopia in China The practice was promoted by senior Communist Party leaders as a uniquely Chinese healing tradition and as a harbinger of a new scientific revolution yet the movements mass popularity and the almost religious devotion of its followers led to its ruthless suppression Qigong Fever body science and About Qigong It seems there was also a propensity towards accepting Qigong as a new scientific discipline along side quantum physics based on an acceptance of the existence of supernatural powers in human beings Anyway the long and short of it is that Qigong in China is not respected and largely discredited Customer reviews Qigong Fever Body Science Since Qigong is a significant part of Chinese culture and heritage from their more than 5 thousand years history I think this book is valuable for those who are interested in China and Chinese culture PDF Qigong Fever Body Science and Utopia in China China is facing a revival of traditional culture at both governmental and official levels trying to call back the dominance of traditional cultures and cosmologies in Chinas social and political David A Palmer Qigong Fever Body Science and Utopia David A Palmer Qigong Fever Body Science and Utopia in China La Fièvre du Quigong 4 China perpectives 20094 2009 has based his study on the premise that in order to understand qigong we need to identify its three distinct components namely body technologies many of which originated in ancient