Taoist treatment during the Cultural Revolution.

Hey Shenchi,
in one of the later parts of this show they talk about a lady at Wudang’s experience during the cultural revolution, here’s the link to part one:

michael may have referenced the cultural revolution in some of his articles, too.
there’s a book called “Born a Healer” by Chunyi Lin, where he describes his experience of the cultural revolution as a young boy. i don’t think he specifically says what taoists experienced, but it could be a helpful reference.

this article describes something that happened to Chen Zhao Pei and Cheng Jincai’s father during the cultural revolution.
http://www.chenstyletaichi.com/english/pages/grandmasterchen.html
ryan

Hello!

If you still sometimes in the future intent to write paper with this theme then at least check BILL PORTE’s Road to Heaven – Encounters with Chinese Hermits. It hits the right point, but it’s not very (enough anyway) scholarly. It was also offered almost for free by somebody on this forum something like one year ago.

Because on Cultural Revolution there are written of course plenty of monographs from different points of view, I think it should not be so difficult to compose paper even there is not much ethnography dealing with Daoists directly because one could also use fieldwork material gathered among other persecuted people (for comparison, citations etc.).

I have every now and then tried to well… befriend nuns. I just remembered that I knew few years ago one Mongolian nun (one of the didis of Ananda Marga). She should by the way be in the moment be positioned somewhere in Taiwan. Bodily very attractive one although getting all the time older and older. She told about her grandfather who had been buddhist monk in Mongolia during the fiercely communist years. Communist had given him strictly two alternatives: to either become family man and labourer or simply die, so logic is same that it has been in Tibet.

Hellurei