God Aboveground: Catholic Church, Postsocialist. Lozada<|

God AbovegroundCatholic Church, Postsocialist State, and Transnational Processes in a Chinese Village\nAuthor(s): Eriberto P. Lozada\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804740975, 978-0804740975\nSynopsis\nThis ethnographic study of a Chinese Catholic village reveals how the rapid penetration of transnational processes into the People's Republic of China during the post-Mao period has redefined and created new social and cultural structures in rural communities. In examining the resurfacing of a Catholic community in a Hakka village in Jiaoling county, Guangdong, the book shows what it means to be part of a global and modern rural village.\n\n The Hakka are members of a Chinese diasporic group that in the past few decades have mobilized international campaigns to strengthen ethnic solidarity. After surviving campaigns of persecution in the Maoist era, Catholic villagers incorporated their village chu.