David Ownby's Falun Gong and the Future of China, published by Oxford University Press in 2008, is the standard scholarly study of Falun Gong's teachings, its origins under Li Hongzhi, and the Chinese government's 1999 ban and crackdown, written by an academic historian of Chinese religion. Its strength is that it is a peer-reviewed monograph from a major university press by a specialist whose work on qigong and Chinese new religious movements is widely cited in the field. Its limit is that it is an outside scholarly account, not the movement's own devotional voice, so a claim about how practitioners themselves understand Falun Gong's teaching needs a source that represents that perspective directly.
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A university press monograph by an academic historian of Chinese religion, an outside scholarly account of Falun Gong's teachings, origins and the 1999 government crackdown rather than the movement's own devotional voice. NotesDavid Ownby's scholarly study of Falun Gong's teachings, origins and the 1999 Chinese government ban and crackdown, by an academic historian of Chinese religion. Use for established facts about Falun Gong's doctrine, practice and the 1999 crackdown; an outside scholarly account, not the movement's own devotional voice.
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AuthorDavid Ownby
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication Year2008
Source Typebook
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This source backs 39 claims across the atlas. As facts: 22 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 8 holds, 1 connected. Plus 7 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Religious Events, 14 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 6 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Open Questions, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Religions, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
- Scriptures & Texts, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Doctrines, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Historical Figures, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Practices, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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