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The Black Tiger Cult in Anze : = A Local History of Tigers, Humans, and Gods in Late Imperial and Modern China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Black Tiger Cult in Anze :/
Reminder of title:	A Local History of Tigers, Humans, and Gods in Late Imperial and Modern China.
Author:	Zhang, Shuran.
Description:	1 online resource (231 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-06A.
Subject:	Asian history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29996166click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798363511721

The Black Tiger Cult in Anze : = A Local History of Tigers, Humans, and Gods in Late Imperial and Modern China.
Zhang, Shuran.

The Black Tiger Cult in Anze :A Local History of Tigers, Humans, and Gods in Late Imperial and Modern China. - 1 online resource (231 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

TThis study focuses on the Black Tiger Cult in Anze, Shanxi from the 17th to the 21st century and explores changing human-tiger relationships as well as the localization of canonical traditions. Drawing upon local gazetteers, scholar-officials' petitions, canonical texts, stele inscriptions, and temple murals in the area, this study sheds new light on relations among animals, humans, and gods through the deification of the black tiger. While the harsh natural environment intensified conflicts between humans and tigers, the rise of the Black Tiger Cult in local communities helped ease these ecological and social conflicts during the late-imperial era. As the cult gradually established its presence to serve spiritual and practical needs of local people, its practice complemented the mainstream religious communities and state-sponsored sacrificial rituals. The Black Tiger Cult brought together communities and the state power by providing them a space to express and negotiate their spiritual, political, agricultural, and cultural interests. This study also offers a comparative perspective on the Black Tiger Cult in North China and the Tiger Lord Cult in Taiwan during modern times. Different levels of connections between these cults and the historical memory of human-tiger conflicts may contribute to the reinvention of the deified tiger and its relationship with contemporary people. This study argues that the deification of tigers did not elevate the position of animals higher than that of human beings. The establishment of Black Tiger Temples likely changed the local distribution of tigers. Moreover, although traditions of tiger gods vary in different regions and times, they share similar cultural elements that have been interwoven with local human-tiger/animal relationships.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798363511721Subjects--Topical Terms:

1099323
Asian history.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Black tiger cultIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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