Recovering Buddhism in Modern China J. Brooks Jessup, Jan Kiely.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jessup, J. Brooks, editor.

Kiely, Jan, editor.

Series:

Sheng Yen series in Chinese Buddhist studies.

The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism--China--History--20th century.

Buddhism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY Columbia University Press [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Kiely, Jan / Jessup, J. Brooks

PART I. REPUBLICAN-ERA MODERNITY

1. Buddhist Activism, Urban Space, and Ambivalent Modernity in 1920s Shanghai / Jessup, J. Brooks

2. Buddhism and the Modern Epistemic Space: Buddhist Intellectuals in the Science and Philosophy of Life Debates / Hammerstrom, Erik J.

3. A Revolution of Ink: Chinese Buddhist Periodicals in the Early Republic / Scott, Gregory Adam

PART II. MIDCENTURY WAR AND REVOLUTION

4. Resurrecting Xuanzang: The Modern Travels of a Medieval Monk / Brose, Benjamin

5. Buddhist Efforts for The Reconciliation of Buddhism and Marxism in The Early Years of The People's Republic of China / Yu, Xue

6. The Communist Dismantling of Temple and Monastic Buddhism in Suzhou / Kiely, Jan

PART III. CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL PRACTICE

7. Mapping Religious Difference: Lay Buddhist Textual Communities in the Post-Mao Period / Fisher, Gareth

8. "Receiving Prayer Beads": A Lay-Buddhist Ritual Performed by Menopausal Women in Ninghua, Western Fujian / Cheung, Neky Tak-Ching

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231541107

0231541104

OCLC:

967264316