ISBN:
9780231541107
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 383 Seiten)
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Series Statement:
The Sheng Yen series in Chinese Buddhist studies
Series Statement:
The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
Series Statement:
De Gruyter eBook-Paket Geschichte
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Recovering Buddhism in modern China
Keywords:
Buddhism History
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20th century
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China
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Buddhism History 20th century
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Buddhism History 20th century
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Buddhism.
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HISTORY / Asia / China
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Konferenzschrift
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China
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Buddhismus
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Geschichte 1912-2015
Abstract:
Modern Chinese history told from a Buddhist perspective restores the vibrant, creative role of religion in postimperial China. It shows how urban Buddhist elites jockeyed for cultural dominance in the early Republican era, how Buddhist intellectuals reckoned with science, and how Buddhist media contributed to modern print cultures. It recognizes the political importance of sacred Buddhist relics and the complex processes through which Buddhists both participated in and experienced religious suppression under Communist rule. Today, urban and rural communities alike engage with Buddhist practices to renegotiate class, gender, and kinship relations in post-Mao China. This volume vividly portrays these events and more, recasting Buddhism as a critical factor in China's twentieth-century development. Each chapter connects a moment in Buddhist history to a significant theme in Chinese history, creating new narratives of Buddhism's involvement in the emergence of urban modernity, the practice of international diplomacy, the mobilization for total war, and other transformations of state, society, and culture. Working across an extraordinary thematic range, this book reincorporates Buddhism into the formative processes and distinctive character of Chinese history.
Description / Table of Contents:
Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction -- -- PART I. REPUBLICAN-ERA MODERNITY -- -- 1. Buddhist Activism, Urban Space, and Ambivalent Modernity in 1920s Shanghai -- -- 2. Buddhism and the Modern Epistemic Space: Buddhist Intellectuals in the Science and Philosophy of Life Debates -- -- 3. A Revolution of Ink: Chinese Buddhist Periodicals in the Early Republic -- -- PART II. MIDCENTURY WAR AND REVOLUTION -- -- 4. Resurrecting Xuanzang: The Modern Travels of a Medieval Monk -- -- 5. Buddhist Efforts for The Reconciliation of Buddhism and Marxism in The Early Years of The People’s Republic of China -- -- 6. The Communist Dismantling of Temple and Monastic Buddhism in Suzhou -- -- PART III. CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL PRACTICE -- -- 7. Mapping Religious Difference: Lay Buddhist Textual Communities in the Post-Mao Period -- -- 8. “Receiving Prayer Beads”: A Lay-Buddhist Ritual Performed by Menopausal Women in Ninghua, Western Fujian -- -- Bibliography -- -- Contributors -- -- Index
Note:
"We are grateful for the grant funding from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and support from the Centre for East Asian Studies (renamed Centre for China Studies in November 2012) that made possible the workshop held at CUHK in May 2012 from which this book originated." - Acknowledgments
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