By Lan Samantha Chang
The novella and 5 tales that make up this assortment demonstrate the lives of immigrant households haunted via misplaced loves: a ghost seduces a tender woman right into a flooded river; a mom instructions a daughter to avenge her father’s dying; and within the identify novella, a lady speaks from past the grave approximately her tragic marriage to an exiled musician whose personal disappointments approximately destroyed their daughters.
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405–22 in China Review 2000. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. , ed. 2003. Religion in China Today. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. religious research in communist china 39 Qin, Xitai. 1988–1995. Zhongguo daojiao shi [A History of Daoism], 4 vols. Chengdu: Sichuan People’s Press. RAB (Religious Affairs Bureau). 1995. Xin shiqi zongjiao gongzuo wenxian xuanbian [Collection of Selected Documents on Religious Affairs in the New Period]. Beijing: Religious Culture Press. Ren, Jiyu.
But it also clearly reaffirms the atheist doctrine: religion will eventually wither away and atheist propaganda should be carried out unremittingly. Document No. 19 reports the reality of religious persistence: From the early 1950s to the early 1980s, the number of Muslims increased from over 8 million to over 10 million. 7 million to over 3 million. 7 million to about 3 million. Buddhism and Daoism have also persisted, although no enumeration was provided. Given that the whole population has about doubled from 1950 to 1980, the absolute number of religious believers has increased, but the proportion of believers in the whole population of the country has decreased (RAB 1995: 56).
A Protestant church in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, first reopened for religious services on 8 April 1979. Following this, churches began to re-open throughout the country. The national TSPM Committee was revitalized in 1980. Since then, the national and local TSPM committees have facilitated the reopening of many churches. In 1982, the TSPM committee of the Beidao District of the Tianshui Prefecture was established. In the same year, it helped the Wuzhuang Church to get back one of its properties.