Reclaiming the Wilderness

A syncretistic and millenarian religious movement, the Yiguandao (Way of Pervading Unity) was one of the major redemptive societies of Republican China. It developed extremely rapidly in the 1930s and the 1940s, attracting millions of members. Severely repressed after the establishment of the People''s Republic of China, it managed to endure and redeploy elsewhere, especially in Taiwan. Today, it ...