Friendship and Hospitality: The Jesuit-Confucian Encounter in Late Ming China 1438484968, 9781438484969

Male Friendship in Ming China [1 ed.] 9789047419587, 9789004160262

This is the first interdisciplinary effort to study friendship in late imperial China from the perspective of gender his

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The Renewal of Buddhism in China: Zhuhong and the Late Ming Synthesis 9780231552677

First published in 1981, Chün-fang Yü’s The Renewal of Buddhism in China challenged the conventional view that Buddhism

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Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China 0674697758, 9780674697751

In 17th and 18th century China, Buddhists and Confucians alike flooded local Buddhist monasteries with donations As gent

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The art of doing good: charity in late Ming China 9780520253636, 9780520943506

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The Art of Doing Good: Charity in Late Ming China 0520253639, 9780520253636

An unprecedented passion for saving lives swept through late Ming society, giving rise to charitable institutions that t

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Community Schools and the State in Ming China 9781503625242

According to imperial edict in pre-modern China, an elementary school was to be established in every village in the empi

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Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body 9004429557, 9789004429550

In Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang provides an extensive reading of the Ming (1368-1644 C. E.

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Art of Doing Good: Charity in Late Ming China 9780520943506, 9780520253636

An unprecedented passion for saving lives swept through late Ming society, giving rise to charitable institutions that t

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Androgyny in Late Ming and Early Qing Literature 0824825713, 9780824825713

The frequent appearance of androgyny in Ming and Qing literature has long interested scholars of late imperial Chinese c

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The Renewal of Buddhism in China: Zhuhong and the Late Ming Synthesis [Fortieth anniversary edition] 0231198523, 9780231198523

First published in 1981, The Renewal of Buddhism in China broke new ground in the study of Chinese Buddhism. An interdis

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