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Introduction / Jan Kiely and J. Brooks Jessup -- Buddhist activism, urban space, and ambivalent modernity in 1920s Shanghai / J. Brooks Jessup -- Buddhism and the modern epistemic space: Buddhist intellectuals in the science and philosophy of life debates / Erik J. Hammerstrom -- A revolution of ink: Chinese and Buddhist periodicals in the early republic / Gregory Adam Scott -- Resurrecting Xuanzang; the modern travels of a medieval monk / Benjamin Brose -- Buddhist efforts for the reconciliation of Buddhism and Marxism in the early years of the People's Republic of China / Xue Yu -- The communist dismantling of temple and monastic Buddhism in Suzhou / Jan Kiely -- Mapping religious difference: lay Buddhist textual communities in the post-Mao period / Gareth Fisher -- "Receiving Prayer Beads": a lay-Buddhist ritual performed by menopausal women in Ninghua, Wester Fujian / Neky Tak-Ching Cheung.;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 me

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Author

Jessup, J. Brooks;Kiely, Jan

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231172769

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Buddhism, Science

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14