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The Space of Religion - Temple, State, and Buddhist Communities in Modern China (Paperback): Yoshiko Ashiwa, David L. Wank The Space of Religion - Temple, State, and Buddhist Communities in Modern China (Paperback)
Yoshiko Ashiwa, David L. Wank
R760 Discovery Miles 7 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Nanputuo Temple in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen has been a cherished site for the worship of the bodhisattva Guanyin for centuries. It was a center of modernizing Buddhism in the early twentieth century and a flagship for the revival of Buddhism after state suppression during the Cultural Revolution. The Space of Religion takes readers inside the Nanputuo Temple in order to explore the practice of Buddhism in modern China and the complex relationship between Buddhism and the Chinese state. Based on three decades of ethnographic research, Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank tell the story of Nanputuo against the backdrop of a dramatic stretch of Chinese history. They vividly depict episodes such as renovating the halls, reestablishing ties with overseas Chinese donors, conflicts with local government, revival of ritual life, reopening of its Buddhist academy, and the passion of the Guanyin birthday festival. To understand Nanputuo, Buddhist communities, and other temples in Xiamen, Ashiwa and Wank develop the concept of religion as a space constituted by physical, semiotic, and institutional dimensions. They also show how the Chinese state and Buddhism have each adapted to the other, as the temple has adjusted to government policy while the state has deployed Buddhism in its promotion of Chinese culture. This interdisciplinary book is both a theoretically generative analysis of religious spaces and an empirically rich account of the recovery of Buddhism in China after the Mao era.

The Space of Religion - Temple, State, and Buddhist Communities in Modern China (Hardcover): Yoshiko Ashiwa, David L. Wank The Space of Religion - Temple, State, and Buddhist Communities in Modern China (Hardcover)
Yoshiko Ashiwa, David L. Wank
R2,653 Discovery Miles 26 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Nanputuo Temple in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen has been a cherished site for the worship of the bodhisattva Guanyin for centuries. It was a center of modernizing Buddhism in the early twentieth century and a flagship for the revival of Buddhism after state suppression during the Cultural Revolution. The Space of Religion takes readers inside the Nanputuo Temple in order to explore the practice of Buddhism in modern China and the complex relationship between Buddhism and the Chinese state. Based on three decades of ethnographic research, Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank tell the story of Nanputuo against the backdrop of a dramatic stretch of Chinese history. They vividly depict episodes such as renovating the halls, reestablishing ties with overseas Chinese donors, conflicts with local government, revival of ritual life, reopening of its Buddhist academy, and the passion of the Guanyin birthday festival. To understand Nanputuo, Buddhist communities, and other temples in Xiamen, Ashiwa and Wank develop the concept of religion as a space constituted by physical, semiotic, and institutional dimensions. They also show how the Chinese state and Buddhism have each adapted to the other, as the temple has adjusted to government policy while the state has deployed Buddhism in its promotion of Chinese culture. This interdisciplinary book is both a theoretically generative analysis of religious spaces and an empirically rich account of the recovery of Buddhism in China after the Mao era.

Making Religion, Making the State - The Politics of Religion in Modern China (Paperback): Yoshiko Ashiwa, David L. Wank Making Religion, Making the State - The Politics of Religion in Modern China (Paperback)
Yoshiko Ashiwa, David L. Wank
R697 Discovery Miles 6 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Making Religion, Making the State" combines cutting-edge perspectives on religion with rich empirical data to offer a challenging new argument about the politics of religion in modern China. The volume goes beyond extant portrayals of the opposition of state and religion to emphasize their mutual constitution. It examines how the modern category of "religion" is enacted and implemented in specific locales and contexts by a variety of actors from the late nineteenth century until the present. With chapters written by experts on Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholicism, Daoism, Islam, and more, this volume will appeal across the social sciences and humanities to those interested in politics, religion, and modernity in China.

Commodifying Communism - Business, Trust, and Politics in a Chinese City (Paperback, Revised): David L. Wank Commodifying Communism - Business, Trust, and Politics in a Chinese City (Paperback, Revised)
David L. Wank
R1,000 Discovery Miles 10 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Commodifying Communism is an ethnographic study of the role of personal ties between private entrepreneurs and local officials in the organization of China's emerging market economy. It is based on almost two years of fieldwork in Xiamen City, Fujian, one of China's five special economic zones. A close examination of how private business is conducted through these ties sheds light on the dynamism of China's market economy and its political consequences.

Commodifying Communism - Business, Trust, and Politics in a Chinese City (Hardcover, New): David L. Wank Commodifying Communism - Business, Trust, and Politics in a Chinese City (Hardcover, New)
David L. Wank
R2,581 Discovery Miles 25 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Commodifying Communism is an ethnographically grounded account of the institutional organization and political consequences of China's historically unprecedented market growth. Drawing upon almost two years of ethnographic fieldwork, this book challenges conventional views of post-communist emerging markets being tied to the retreat of the state. David Wank shows how entrepreneurs running private trading companies in Xiamen City, Fujian Province (one of China's five special economic zones) maximize profit and security through patron-client networks with local state agents. The book examines how processes of opportunity, exchange, expectations, and advantage are constrained by both statist and popular institutions in market clientelism. It also considers the implications of market clientelism for the dynamism of China's emerging market economy relative to Eastern European post-communist economies and its political consequences for state-society and center-local relations.

Making Religion, Making the State - The Politics of Religion in Modern China (Hardcover): Yoshiko Ashiwa, David L. Wank Making Religion, Making the State - The Politics of Religion in Modern China (Hardcover)
Yoshiko Ashiwa, David L. Wank
R2,910 R2,716 Discovery Miles 27 160 Save R194 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Making Religion, Making the State" combines cutting-edge perspectives on religion with rich empirical data to offer a challenging new argument about the politics of religion in modern China. The volume goes beyond extant portrayals of the opposition of state and religion to emphasize their mutual constitution. It examines how the modern category of "religion" is enacted and implemented in specific locales and contexts by a variety of actors from the late nineteenth century until the present. With chapters written by experts on Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholicism, Daoism, Islam, and more, this volume will appeal across the social sciences and humanities to those interested in politics, religion, and modernity in China.

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