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Recovering Buddhism in modern China / Jan Kiely and J. Brooks Jessup.

Contributor(s): Series: Sheng Yen series in Chinese Buddhist studiesPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231541107
  • 0231541104
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 294.30951 23
LOC classification:
  • BQ626
Online resources: 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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Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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