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S04/0690 --- China: History--Qing: 1644 - 1840

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Aśvaghoṣa, Nāgārjuna, and Āryadeva are among the most celebrated Indian patriarchs in Asian Buddhist traditions and modern Buddhist studies scholarship. Scholars agree that all three lived in first- to third-century C.E. India, so most studies have focused on locating them in ancient Indian history, religion, or society. To this end, they have used all available accounts of the Indian patriarchs' lives—in Sanskrit, Tibetan, various Central Asian languages, and Chinese, produced over more than a millennium—and viewed them as bearing exclusively on ancient India. Of these sources, medieval Chinese hagiographies are by far the earliest and most abundant. Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China is the first attempt to situate the medieval Chinese hagiographies of Aśvaghoṣa, Nāgārjuna, and Āryadeva in the context of Chinese religion, culture, and society of the time. It examines these sources not as windows into ancient Indian history but as valuable records of medieval Chinese efforts to define models of Buddhist sanctity. It explores broader questions concerning Chinese conceptions of ancient Indian Buddhism and concerns about being Buddhist in latter-day China. By propagating the tales and texts of Aśvaghoṣa, Nāgārjuna, and Āryadeva, leaders of the Chinese sangha sought to demonstrate that the means and media of Indian Buddhist enlightenment were readily available in China and that local Chinese adepts could thereby rise to the ranks of the most exalted Buddhist saints across the Sino-Indian divide. Chinese authors also aimed to merge their own kingdom with the Buddhist heartland by demonstrating congruency between Indian and Chinese ideals of spiritual attainment. This volume shows, for the first time, how Chinese Buddhists adduced the patriarchs as evidence that Buddhist masters from ancient India had instantiated the same ideals, practices, and powers expected of all Chinese holy beings and that the expressly foreign religion of Buddhism was thus the best means to sainthood and salvation for latter-day China. Rich in information and details about the inner world of medieval Chinese Buddhists, Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China will be welcomed by scholars and students in the fields of Buddhist studies, religious studies, and China studies.

Buddhism -- China -- History -- 581-960 --- Buddhism -- China -- History -- To 581 --- Buddhist hagiography -- China -- History --- Buddhist saints -- Historiography --- Buddhist hagiography --- Buddhist saints --- Buddhism --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Saints, Buddhist --- Saints --- Hagiography, Buddhist --- Hagiography --- History --- Historiography

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In Inheritance within Rupture , Luo Zhitian brings together ten essays to explore the themes of change and continuity, rupture and inheritance from the late Qing through the early Republic (1890s-1940s). Rejecting binaries such as tradition/modernity, conservative/liberal, Luo blurs the divisions between intellectual opponents and clarifies the divergences between scholarly friends. Centering these discussions around some of the most famous intellectual debates in the modern period, Luo challenges our understanding of ideological positions, political affiliation, and scholarly identity in early twentieth-century China. By focusing on the influence of cultural inheritance within the rupture of modernity, we come to understand those concerns shared by all Chinese in their own times and in the present.

Learning and scholarship --- History --- China --- Civilization --- S02/0215 --- S04/0750 --- S04/0760 --- China: General works--Intellectuals: 1840 -1949 --- China: History--Reform movement: 1898 and 1900 - 1911 --- China: History--Boxers

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This study of the evolution of Chinese capitalism chronicles the Song family of North China under five successive authoritarian governments. Brett Sheehan shows both foreign and Chinese influences on private business, which, although closely linked to the state, was neither a handmaiden to authoritarianism nor a natural ally of democracy.

Businessmen -- China -- History -- 20th century. --- Capitalism -- China -- History -- 20th century. --- China -- Economic conditions -- 1912-1949. --- China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949. --- China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1949. --- Industrial policy -- China -- History -- 20th century. --- Industries -- China -- History -- 20th century. --- Industries --- Industrial policy --- Businessmen --- Capitalism --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- History --- China --- Economic conditions --- Politics and government --- Market economy --- Business men --- Business --- Industry and state --- Industrial production --- Industry --- Government policy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Businesspeople --- Economic policy --- E-books --- S10/0510 --- S10/0230 --- S06/0210 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Industry: 1911 - 1949 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: 1911 - 1949 --- China: Politics and government--Republic: 1911 - 1949 --- Industries, Primitive

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S04/0500 --- S06/0203 --- China: History--Ancient (Pre-Han and Han, incl. Sima Qian) --- China: Politics and government--Government and political institutions: Sui - Yuan