Falun Gong and the Future of China

Undergraduates will be able to grasp the book's main points, yet Ownby writes with more than enough insight, nuance, and sophistication to engage his fellow Sinologists. Scholars of Chinese religion will be challenged by Ownby's call to reevaluate the role of popular religious movements in the history of modern China. Journal of Chinese Religions supplies a scholarly corrective to naive and uninformed Western assumptions that Falun Gong should be supported simply because it is opposed to the Chinese government Michael Dillon, Times Literary Supplement