Crafting Utopias for Spiritual Nationhood: Digested India in Contemporary Self-cultivation Practices in China
This study examines how India - both as a modern nation-state and a symbolic geography - is digested by Chinese self-cultivators to negotiate their belonging in China's spiritual nationhood, defined as the landscape of belief that corresponds to the geo-body of the nation-state. It follows the...
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