Chairman Buddha

• Titel: Chairman Buddha
• Mitwirkende: Tang, Louyi [FilmregisseurIn]
• Verf.angabe: written, produced, directed and edited by Louyi Tang
• Verlagsort: [New Windsor]
• Verlag: Tiger Butterfly Films
• E-Jahr: 2016
• Jahr: [2016]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (1 Video-Datei, 71 Minuten)
• Illustrationen: farbig
• Fussnoten: Dokumentarfilm. USA. 2016
• Vor/Abspann: Cinematography by Sidharta Pascual ; music by Fabrizio Villegas ; executive producers Jianming Shen, Alice Yan, Weili Lin, David Wilkinson ; a feature documentary by Tiger Butterfly Films
• Schrift/Sprache: Chinesische Sprachausgabe ; chinesische und englische Untertitel
• Schlagwörter: (p)Mao, Zedong
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Dokumenttyp: Film
• Sprache: chi eng
• Sonst. Schlagwort: (z)21st century / (z)2010s
• K10plus-PPN: 1845801393
• K10plus-PPN: CATS / Abt. Ostasien
• Signatur Inst: DIG000.080
• Bibliothek/Idn: OA / m4324236275
• Lokale URL Inst.: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Chairman Buddha is about the mythology of Mao Zedong, whom many Chinese today believe has been reincarnated as a Buddha. Nobody knows precisely when and where it began, but some people believe it started in the early 1990s, after an accident involving eight cars in Guangzhou, a city in south China. Since then, temples for Mao worship have been built in the countryside, and Mao statues have been re-erected in city squares. Believing Mao is more powerful than the ancient Indian Buddha, worshipers light incense and fall to their knees before his statues. Although the Chinese government has cautiously tried to stifle it, Mao worship has continued to spread throughout China.