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Series:   Elements in Religion and Violence

Falun Gong

Spiritual Warfare and Martyrdom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2018

James R. Lewis
James R. Lewis
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Tromsø, Norway

Summary

Falun Gong, founded by Li Hongzhi in 1992, attracted international attention in 1999 after staging a demonstration outside government offices in Beijing. It was subsequently banned. Followers then created a number of media outlets outside China focused on protesting the PRC's attack on the 'human rights' of practitioners. This volume focuses on Falun Gong and violence. Though the author notes accusations of how Chinese authorities have abused and tortured practitioners, the volume will focus on Li Hongzhi's teachings about 'spiritual warfare', and how these teachings have motivated practitioners to deliberately seek brutalization and martyrdom.
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Falun GongLi HongzhiReligious ViolenceCults
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Series: Elements in Religion and Violence
Online ISBN: 9781108564557
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 03 May 2018

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References and Bibliography of English-Language Resources on Falun Gong

I began seriously researching Falun Gong in 2015. I was surprised to discover a truly significant quantity of relevant research materials in English. Without trying to be completely exhaustive, in this bibliography I have tried to bring together as many English-language academic sources on Falun Gong as I could find, whether I referred to them or not. I have also included the nonacademic sources to which I refer in different parts of the present volume. In addition to these sources, most of Li Hongzhi’s writings and lectures have been translated into English and posted online; I have only included those to which I have referred in the preceding pages. This does not count the extensive online writings by followers and supporters that also appear on movement websites.

For anyone who becomes seriously interested in this topic, there are currently a number of good scholarly monographs on Falun Gong in English. David A. Palmer’s Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007) is essential reading for understanding the Qi Gong “boom” and the early Falun Gong movement in China prior to the 1999 crackdown. David Ownby’s Falun Gong and the Future of China (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008) is basically a good general treatment, despite what I regard as an overly trusting attitude toward practitioners (discussed in my Afterword). Benjamin Penny’s The Religion of Falun Gong (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012) is exceptionally good on analyzing Falun Gong as a religion. Finally, James W. Tong’s Revenge of the Forbidden City: The Suppression of the Falungong in China, 1999–2005 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) is a detailed study of the suppression of the Falun Gong movement on the mainland. The most recent monograph-length study of which I am aware is Juha A. Vuori’s Critical Security and Chinese Politics: The Anti-Falun Gong Campaign (London: Routledge, 2014), which, as the title indicates, examines the PRC’s suppression of FLG in terms of critical security studies.

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