Chinese Martial Ritual Groups in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Chinese Martial Arts Ritual Groups in the Mid-Twentieth Century: an interview with Yupeng Jiao. Yupeng Jiao is a Ph.D candidate in Modern Chinese History. Hi...

Chinese Martial Arts Ritual Groups in the Mid-Twentieth Century: an interview with Yupeng Jiao.

Yupeng Jiao is a Ph.D candidate in Modern Chinese History. His forthcoming dissertation is the subject of this interview. He researches Chinese religiosity, Christianity in China, Global Christianity and Chinese Modernism. He holds a B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, and a M.A. in International Politics fromUC San Diego.

We discuss the Interrogation of thousands of martial arts ritualists by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the 1950s. What led up to it, and what followed. It is an exciting interview, where we cover a lot of ground.