Mayfair Yang — China’s Hidden Spiritual Landscape
Mayfair Yang — China’s Hidden Spiritual Landscape
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A filmmaker and scholar gives us a parallel story to the ubiquitous news of China’s economy and politics. Mayfair Yang discusses the ancient and reemerging traditions of reverence and ritual — revealing background to its approach to Tibet. And, she tells us how China gleaned some of its recent dismissive attitudes towards religion from the West.