Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China

Informationen zum Autor Susan Naquin is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Chün-fang Yü is Associate Professor of Religion at Rutgers University. Klappentext Until now! China has been scarcely represented in the burgeoning comparative literature on pilgrimage. This volume remedies that omission! discussing the interaction between pilgrims and sacred sites from the tenth century to the present. From the perspectives of literature! art! history! religion! politics! and anthropology! the essays focus on China's most famous pilgrimage mountains as well as lesser known sites. Zusammenfassung This volume discusses the interaction between pilgrims and sacred sites from the tenth century to the present. From the perspectives of literature, art, history, religion, politics and anthropology, the essays focus on China's most famous pilgrimage mountains as well as lesser known sites. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Pilgrimage in China Women Pilgrims to T'ai Shan: Some Pages from a Seventeenth-Century Novel An Ambivalent Pilgrim to T'ai Shan in the Seventeenth Century Chang Shang-ying on Wu-t'ai Shan Relics and Flesh Bodies: The Creation of Ch'an Pilgrimage Sites P'u-t'o Shan: Pilgrimage and the Creation of the Chinese Potalaka Huang Shan Paintings as Pilgrimage Pictures The Pilgrimage to Wu-tang Shan The Peking Pilgrimage to Miao-feng Shan: Religious Organizations and Sacred Sites Reading the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall in Peking: The Tribulations of the Implied Pilgrim

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Susan Naquin is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Chün-fang Yü is Associate Professor of Religion at Rutgers University.

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• Authors: Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U S, Susan Naquin, Susan Yu Naquin, Social Science Research Council (U S )
• Assisted by: Susan Naquin (Editor), Naquin Susan (Editor), Chü N-Fang Yü (Editor), Chun-Fang Yu (Editor), Chü N-Fang Yü (Editor), Chün-Fang Yü (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.1992
• EAN: 9780520075672
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07567-2
• No. of pages: 456
• Series: Studies on China; Studies on China
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Buddhism, Religion: general, Politics & government, c 1500 onwards to present day, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Politics and government, Asian History, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE