Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain. Volume Two

Kenneth Dean (Ph.D. Stanford 1988) is Lee Chair and James McGill Professor of Chinese at McGill University. His publications include Taoist ritual and popular cults of Southeast China (Princeton, 1992) and Lord of the Three in One (Princeton, 1998).Zheng Zhenman (Ph.D. Xiamen 1989) is Professor of History, Xiamen University. His publications include Family Lineage Organization and Social Change in Ming and Qing Fujian (2001) and (with Kenneth Dean), Epigraphical Materials on the History of Religion in Fujian (4 vols, 2002-04).

"...the overall impression is that this is the product of awe-inspiring labours, and that it provides the raw material for a host of dissertations and books...Together [HO4 22, HO4 23 V.1, and HO4 23 V.2] make the persuasive case that without due consideration to religious life as a vehicle for communal organization and sociality and as a resource for individual and communal self-expression and identity, our analysis both of historical and of contemporary China remains needlessly impoverished."Michael Szonyi, Harvard University, Pacific Affairs: Vol. 85, No. 1 - March 2012"Dean, Zheng, and their team are still at work, and these volumes represent only the most thoroughly mapped of a series of Putian monographs that are increasingly essential for students of Chinese religion, local history, state and local relations, and emigration during late imperial China and up to the present."Donald Sutton, Carnegie Mellon University, The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 70/1, February 2011