Book Review: Gongzhu zhengzhi: Wei Jin Nanbeichao zhengzhi shi de xingbie kaocha 公主政治：魏晉南北朝政治史的性別考察 (The politics of princesses’ social networks: A gendered investigation into the political history of early medieval China), written by Huang Zhiyan 黃旨彥

NAN Nü ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Edward Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval China ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Medieval China

scholarly journals Local Resistance in Early Medieval Chinese Historiography and the Problem of Religious Overinterpretation

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grégoire Espesset
Keyword(s):  
Religious History ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Local Resistance ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval China ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chinese Religions ◽  
Chinese Historiography ◽  
Early Medieval China

The official corpus of Chinese historiography contains a wealth of valuable information on what may be termed local resistance to the centralised empire in early medieval China (third to sixth century). Sinologists specialised in the study of Chinese religions commonly reconstruct the religious history of the era by interpreting some of these data. In the process, however, methodological mistakes often occur, such as disregard for the primary purpose of the historiography of local resistance, and ‘overinterpretation’—that is, ‘fabricating false intensity’ and ‘seeing intensity everywhere’, as French historian Paul Veyne proposed to define the term. Focusing on a cluster of historical anecdotes collected in the standard histories of the four centuries under consideration, this study discusses how the supposedly ‘religious’ data therein should, and should not, be dealt with.

Transformation of Po?adha/Zhai in Early Medieval China (third–sixth centuries CE)

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-98
Author(s):  
Yi Ding
Keyword(s):  
Reception History ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Chinese Buddhism ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
The Third ◽  
Medieval China ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Medieval China ◽  
Ritual Context

This article attempts to disentangle the semantics of zhai ? in early medieval China, mostly from the third century to the sixth, by examining both Indian and Chinese Buddhist sources. It demonstrates that semantic shifts in the term reflect a changing ritual context, as Chinese Buddhism rapidly took form. The article consists of two parts. The first part looks into how the Po?adha S?tra was first introduced to China and how the word po?adha was employed in early ?gama scriptures and the vinayas translated before the middle of the fifth century. The second part (from p. 89) examines the reception history of the lay po?adha and the transformation that it underwent in early medieval China. The po?adha/zhai in China eventually evolved into a religious feast centred on lay-monastic interaction in association with a variety of ritual elements, especially repentance rites.

Book Review

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-376
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
History Of

Book reviews: Petersen, Klaus, Ligitimität und Krise. Die politische Geschichte des dänischen Wohlfahrtstaates 1945-73 [Legitimacy and Crisis. The Political History of the Danish Welfare State 1945-73] (reviewed by Anders Lindbom)

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