Massimo Introvigne on China

“The [Chinese Communist] Party doesn’t just want to govern China; it wants to define governance itself.”

“China seems to have been very much similar to the West, both in the production of new religious movements and in attracting to them figures from the political left who were officially promoting the struggle against “superstition.” Reconstructions of “Chinese traditional culture” as “non-religious,” and of the rich Chinese religious pluralism as mere “folk religion” should be viewed as propaganda rather than history.”