Chinese Spirit Medium Madness

For a higher quality version, visit:    • China's Folk Religion Revival (1999)  

Beyond Belief (1999): Despite Chinese Communism's strict atheist principles, a new wave of superstitious practice is sweeping the country.

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Housewife and medium Lin Yujin flails as she’s possessed by the spirit of an ancient Daoist god. She’s just one of the thousands of new mediums cashing in on the renewed Chinese passion for everything spiritual. For these people age-old superstition is indistinguishable from approved religion. It’s what families, even Party families have done for generations. Without the iron rice bowl of communist times past, it seems insecure Chinese are desperate for the luck of the gods.


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