The rise of Falun Gong -- Challenging contemporary political culture: Falun Gong's departure from Marxist materialism, authoritarianism, and scientism -- Why is Falun Gong popular? -- As powerful as weapons: the use of tropes as ideological instruments -- "Wildfire won't wipe it out-- spring wind blows it back": the transfiguration of the political sensibility of the Chinese people
Summary
A firsthand account of the power of rhetoric to establish and challenge cultural controls in modern China