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- NEW BOOK> Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity
- Re: QUERY> Surveys of Buddhist Belief?
- Re: QUERY> Surveys of Buddhist Belief?
NEW BOOK> Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity
by Dong Wang
Dear all,With gratitude, I write to inform you that my fourth single-authored book in English, Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity, has just been published available in e-version, paperback, and hardcover.
Dong WANG
This
thoroughly researched book provides the first comprehensive history of how a
UNESCO World Heritage site on the Central China Plain, Longmen’s caves and the
Buddhist statuary of Luoyang, was rediscovered in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries. Drawing on original research and archival sources in
Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, and Swedish, as well as extensive
fieldwork, Dong Wang traces the ties between cultural heritage and modernity,
detailing how this historical monument has been understood from antiquity to
the present. She highlights the manifold traffic and expanded contact between
China and other countries as these nations were reorienting themselves in order
to adapt their own cultural traditions to newly industrialized and
industrializing societies. Unknown to much of the world, Longmen and its
mesmerizing modern history takes readers to the heartland of China, known as
“Chinese Babylon” a century ago. With remarkable depth and breadth, this book
unravels both a bygone and a continuing human pursuit of artifacts—shared,
spiritual, modern, and, above all, beautiful—that have linked so many lives,
Chinese and foreign.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 How Longmen Was Remembered,
Not Remembered, and Misremembered as an Ancient Site in Premodern China
2 Shaping Chinese Modern
Identity: Antiquities in Public Opinion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
3 Voices of Silence: European
Discovery of Longmen
4 “An Influence of the Souls
of These Stone Saints”: Early American and Japanese Recognition, between
Universalism and Nationalism
5 Longmen and OsvaldSirén
(1879–1966)
6 Blighted Beauty: Cultural
Heritage Law in Early Twentieth-Century China
7 UNESCO’s Longmen and Chinese
Urbanization: Better City, Better Life?
Conclusion
Appendix: Luoyang as Capital: A Brief Timeline
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPages: 314 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-5381-4110-6 • Hardback • June 2020 • $95.00 • (£65.00)
978-1-5381-4111-3 • Paperback • June 2020 • $35.00 • (£23.95)
978-1-5381-4112-0 • eBook • June 2020 • $33.00 • (£22.95)
Re: QUERY> Surveys of Buddhist Belief?
by Richard Jaffe
Richard Gombrich touches on some of these topics in his 1971 book, Buddhist
Precept and Practice: Traditional Buddhism in the Rural Highlands of Ceylon,
but his study is based on interviews rather than quality quantitative surveys.There are a number of surveys of Japanese and Chinese religious behavior that investigate some of the questions in which you are interested. The target groups, however, are not exclusively Buddhist, but, in both places, a good portion of the population, for all intents and purposes (funerals!), is Buddhist. You might look at the 2007 Horizon survey, "Spiritual Life of Chinese Residents Survey" or the more recent "Spiritual Life Study of Chinese Residents," for example, to see if any of the questions touch on the topics of karmic retribution, transmigration, etc. There also are numerous surveys of Japanese religiosity dating back decades available in English and Japanese. The website for the Association of Religion Archives has a series of national surveys that may be somewhat useful as well, but a lot of the survey questions are very Christian in orientation, dealing with belief in God, sin, etc. See
Richard M. Jaffe
Duke University
Re: QUERY> Surveys of Buddhist Belief?
by Shou-Jen Kuo
Sometimes people won't self-identify as "Buddhist" but adopt
Buddhist karma or other concepts in daily life. We often treat this phenomenon
as "popular" religion. Below is a nation-wide survey of people's
religious experience in China. Maybe can help you to some extent.• Yao, Xinzhong and Paul Badham. 2007. Religious Experience in Contemporary China, University of Wales Press
Shou-Jen Kuo
Assistant Director
Institute for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism
University of the West
