Recovering Buddhism in Modern China

Recovering Buddhism in Modern China
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 9780231541107
ISBN-13 : 0231541104
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Book Synopsis Recovering Buddhism in Modern China by : Jan Kiely

Download or read book Recovering Buddhism in Modern China written by Jan Kiely and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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