Fear, Heterodoxy, and Crime in Traditional China /
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." Aut...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2024.
Series:
Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Sinica Leidensia ;
165.
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Call Number: HV7118.5
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Conventions
- Introduction
- Tommaso Previato
- Part 1: Gender and Forms of Rule in Inner Asian Cultures and Religions
- 1 Othering the Khitans: Fear, Gender, and Civilization in Song-Liao Relations
- Hang Lin
- 2 Motifs of Fear in Biographical Narratives of Rivalry between Mongolian Lamas and Shamans, and Its Echoes in Legal Codes (17th and 18th Centuries)
- Ágnes Birtalan
- Part 2: State Policies, Agency and Representations of Abrahamic Traditions
- 3 Proactive Bureaucrats and Their Fears: the Controversy over Chinese Muslims and Christians in the Yongzheng Court
- Hung Tak Wai
- 4 Mirror of Desire or Fear? Chinese Emperors in Muslim Folklore and Modern Historiography
- Noriko Unno
- 5 Jihad, Emotion and the State in Chinese Islam: from the Martyrologies of Neo-Sufi Sectarians to the Glorious Death of Revolutionary Heroes
- Tommaso Previato
- 6 A Controversial Case of Iconoclasm and Temple Confiscation: the Impact of Zhong Rongguang and Chen Jinghua's Religious Policies on 1910s Canton
- Ayumu Doi
- Part 3: Emic Approaches to Chinese Buddhism and Folk Beliefs
- 7 Heresy, Discourse and Emotionality: a Sociological Perspective on Pan Lei's Persecution of Chan Master Shilian Dashan
- Jing Li
- 8 Healing the Past, Shaping the Future: the Ontology of Emotion in the Lingji Ritual Tradition
- Fabian Graham
- Index.