Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China
Title | Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China PDF eBook |
Author | Kwang-Ching Liu |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780824825386 |
Ten international academics explore heterodoxy dissent challenging the beliefs and meanings of the established norm in late Imperial China. In this process, they trace the origins of the cultural and intellectual protests to aspects of Daoism and Buddhism in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911)
Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China
Title | Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China PDF eBook |
Author | Liu |
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Female Prescriptive Adepts of Late Imperial China
Title | Female Prescriptive Adepts of Late Imperial China PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy S. Robinson |
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Pages | 230 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | China |
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Conference on "Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China : Cultural Beliefs and Social Divisions," La Casa de Maria, Montecito, California, August 20-26, 1981
Title | Conference on "Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China : Cultural Beliefs and Social Divisions," La Casa de Maria, Montecito, California, August 20-26, 1981 PDF eBook |
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Release | 1981 |
Genre | China |
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Conference on "Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China : Cultural Beliefs and Social Divisions," La Casa de Maria, Montecito, California, August 20-26, 1981
Title | Conference on "Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China : Cultural Beliefs and Social Divisions," La Casa de Maria, Montecito, California, August 20-26, 1981 PDF eBook |
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Release | 1981 |
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Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars
Title | Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars PDF eBook |
Author | Eugenio Menegon |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 2020-10-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1684170532 |
Christianity is often praised as an agent of Chinese modernization or damned as a form of cultural and religious imperialism. In both cases, Christianity’s foreignness and the social isolation of converts have dominated this debate. Eugenio Menegon uncovers another story. In the sixteenth century, European missionaries brought a foreign and global religion to China. Converts then transformed this new religion into a local one over the course of the next three centuries. Focusing on the still-active Catholic communities of Fuan county in northeast Fujian, this project addresses three main questions. Why did people convert? How did converts and missionaries transform a global and foreign religion into a local religion? What does Christianity’s localization in Fuan tell us about the relationship between late imperial Chinese society and religion? Based on an impressive array of sources from Asia and Europe, this pathbreaking book reframes our understanding of Christian missions in Chinese-Western relations. The study’s implications extend beyond the issue of Christianity in China to the wider fields of religious and social history and the early modern history of global intercultural relations. The book suggests that Christianity became part of a preexisting pluralistic, local religious space, and argues that we have so far underestimated late imperial society’s tolerance for “heterodoxy.” The view from Fuan offers an original account of how a locality created its own religious culture in Ming-Qing China within a context both global and local, and illuminates the historical dynamics contributing to the remarkable growth of Christian communities in present-day China.
Fear, Heterodoxy, and Crime in Traditional China
Title | Fear, Heterodoxy, and Crime in Traditional China PDF eBook |
Author | Tommaso Previato |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2024-06-27 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004699007 |
This multi-contributor volume examines the evolving relationship between fear, heterodoxy and crime in traditional China. It throws light on how these three variously interwoven elements shaped local policies and people’s perceptions of the religious, ethnic, and cultural “other.” Authors depart from the assumption that “otherness” is constructed, stereotyped and formalized within the moral, political and legal institutions of Chinese society. The capacity of their findings to address questions about the emotional dimension of mass mobilization, the socio-political implications of heterodoxy, and attributions of crime is the result of integrating multiple sources of knowledge from history, religious studies and social science. Contributors are Ágnes Birtalan, Ayumu Doi, Fabian Graham, Hung Tak Wai, Jing Li, Hang Lin, Tommaso Previato, and Noriko Unno.