https://allegralaboratory.net/on-chinese-pedagogical-legalism-and-its-anthropological-ghost-fictions/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:23:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/on-chinese-pedagogical-legalism-and-its-anthropological-ghost-fictions/#comment-79053 Sun, 12 Jun 2016 06:33:31 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=19447#comment-79053 I am struck by the photograph of the altar at the mediator’s home, with its three deities, the female Bodhisatva Guanyin in the center, Mao Zedong to her left and titled Hong Da Yang (red great yang), and Guang Gong, here in his avatar as the God of Wealth on her right. This ordering is also a ranking, and the placement of Mao, the embodiment of redness as No. 2 and Guang Gong, representing wealth on her right, suggests an interesting layering of ideologies. Does the mediator ever talk about this?

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