No sensible government with a moderate control of the territory would allow such irresponsible handling of explosive devices, and it follows that traders in China are almost beyond the control of the State.
Good observation. Many things in China is outside the scope of State control and often only randomly. I was there good few years ago, but one of the most importnat features was that there is nothing quite stable there and much depends on a local boss whim. Combined with usual disregard for safety - or rather diminished perception of danger - disaster are most likely effect. If you check the leaks from he gas-botle with a lighter, you may eventually find it...
Party has a historic memory of the Chinese habit of reacting to socio-political change by collapsing into civil wars, and fears Islam and Christianity mainly as possible carriers of subversive political messages - after all, many revolts against this or that imperial dynasty had a religious tinge, had they not?
Most certainly it has - the persecutions of Falungong fits exactly into pattern of dealing with heteredoxies during the imperial times. And yes, there were many rebellions with a religion tinge, but except for minority rebelions (Muslim), it was exactly this - a tinge. The Chinese are - grossly overgeneralising - a-religious people. They're in a way "too sensible" to bother with gods and they attach rather secondary importance to religious matters.
The religions you noted are mostly dangerous because they may demand obedience to other authority than the state. And this the Chinese state never accepted, neither in its confucian-classival or communist-modern shape. As long as the practiotioners do not cross into a realm of politics, they may believe what they want.
No sensible government with a moderate control of the territory would allow such irresponsible handling of explosive devices, and it follows that traders in China are almost beyond the control of the State.
Good observation. Many things in China is outside the scope of State control and often only randomly. I was there good few years ago, but one of the most importnat features was that there is nothing quite stable there and much depends on a local boss whim. Combined with usual disregard for safety - or rather diminished perception of danger - disaster are most likely effect. If you check the leaks from he gas-botle with a lighter, you may eventually find it...
Party has a historic memory of the Chinese habit of reacting to socio-political change by collapsing into civil wars, and fears Islam and Christianity mainly as possible carriers of subversive political messages - after all, many revolts against this or that imperial dynasty had a religious tinge, had they not?
Most certainly it has - the persecutions of Falungong fits exactly into pattern of dealing with heteredoxies during the imperial times. And yes, there were many rebellions with a religion tinge, but except for minority rebelions (Muslim), it was exactly this - a tinge. The Chinese are - grossly overgeneralising - a-religious people. They're in a way "too sensible" to bother with gods and they attach rather secondary importance to religious matters.
The religions you noted are mostly dangerous because they may demand obedience to other authority than the state. And this the Chinese state never accepted, neither in its confucian-classival or communist-modern shape. As long as the practiotioners do not cross into a realm of politics, they may believe what they want.
My, that was long. :)
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