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on the internet by a few classmates. But, as she writes, “a hilarious, prankish quasi-religion is gaining popularity in an overseas Chinese online community, though still largely unknown outside the cyber world. The quasi-religion, “Cult of Dasheng”, nominally worship dedicated to Sun Wukong, the fictional figure of the Ming Dynasty’s supernatural novel Journey to the West, is in fact devised to mock pious and impious church-goers among overseas Chinese.” Interesting as it is, this study is followed in this section by an essay on “solidarity”. Its author, Dominique Tyl, of the Macau Ricci Institute, explores the origin of the concept and is looking for its philosophical foundations. These pages help a better understanding of a notion that is more and more employed in the news dispatches and analysis of the mass media.
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