Enchanted Revolution

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Enchanted Revolution is a valuable contribution to a deeper understanding of the complex and multi-layered propaganda culture in the Yan'an period. * Chang-tai Hung, The China Quarterly * Eminently readable, this volume occasionally connects to larger issues beyond Chinese history, incorporating some theoretical insights and presenting a narrative that would work especially well within undergraduate courses. Recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals. * Choice * In this impeccably researched new book, Xiaofei Kang offers scholars a powerful reinterpretation of the Chinese revolution...This is an interdisciplinary study that will interest scholars of history, religion, theater, and gender studies. * Brian J. DeMare, NAN Nue * This is a thought-provoking and innovative work. * Stephen A. Smith, Journal of Religious History * Enchanted Revolution would be excellent for teaching historical methodologies for students of religious studies, East Asian studies, and gender studies. While a working knowledge of twentieth-century Chinese history will be indispensable for placing Kang's argument in its larger context, those approaching the material as outsiders unfamiliar with the Chinese language will nevertheless find her a helpful scholar. * Natasha L. Mikles, Nova Religio * This volume would prove invaluable for all those interested inChinese religion. * Joseph Chadwin * "This book [is] going to blow some people's minds," declares Buddhist studies scholar James A. Benn on Twitter/X. It truly does. Enchanted Revolution is not only for those interested in modern China but anyone who takes an interest in the notion of secularism (in particular from a decolonizing perspective), the relationship between communism and religion, or, more essentially, the perennial question of how the concept of religion we all know as a loaded term should be defined. * Ting Guo, Journal of the American Academy of Religion * This volume would prove invaluable for all those interested inChinese religion. Kang has succeeded in adding further nuanceto a field that is far too often oversimplified. * Joseph Chadwin, Religious Studies Review * Call on all students and scholars of modern China to read this tightly focused, meticulously researched, and impeccably argued book. * Jie Li, Journal of Chinese History *