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This book examines the transformation of values in China since 1850, first in the "secular" realms of economics, science, medicine, aesthetics, media and gender, and then in each of the major religions (Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity) and in Marxist discourse.
About the author
Vincent Goossaert, PhD (1997), Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, is professor of Daoism and Chinese history at that university. He has published books on the Daoist clergy, anticlericalism, Chinese dietary taboos, the production of moral norms, and, with David Palmer,
The Religious Question in Modern China (Chicago, 2011; Levenson Prize 2013).
Jan Kiely, PhD 2001, University of California, Berkeley, is professor and associate director of the Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is co-editor of
Recovering Buddhism in Modern China (2016) and author of
The Compelling Ideal: Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956 (2014).
John Lagerwey, PhD (1975), Harvard University, is professor of Chinese studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is author of
China a Religious State (2010) and co-editor of
Early Chinese Religion I and II (Brill, 2009, 2010) and
Modern Chinese Religion I (Brill, 2014).
