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Recovering Buddhism in modern China
Title
Recovering Buddhism in modern China / Jan Kiely and J. Brooks Jessup.
ISBN
9780231541107 (ebook) :
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Previously issued in print: 2016.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 9, 2016).
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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 recognises 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.
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Columbia scholarship online.
Other formats
Print version :
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 27, 2016
Series
Sheng Yen series in Chinese Buddhist studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Specialized.
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