Recent Scholarship on Chinese Esoteric Buddhism in the West: The State of the Field

Recent scholarship has helped illuminate historical circumstances sur rounding the Israelite Exile. As a result, the book of Ezekiel has gained renewed interest. As a prophet of the Exile, Ezekiel is recognized as an important and liminal figure in the evolution of Israelite theology. In the 1994 volume of Currents, Pfisterer Darr surveyed the state of the field of Ezekiel studies. The present article identifies and examines several emerg ing trends in Ezekiel scholarship since the publication of Pfisterer Darr's study, including literary relations in Ezekiel, the psychology of the prophet, Ezekiel's sign-acts, adulterous Jerusalem (Ezek. 16; 23), corporate and indi vidual responsibility (Ezek. 18), and recent scholarship on Ezek. 40-48.

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Research Themes in Ming-Qing Socioeconomic History—The State of the Field

The Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.2307/2057477 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 84-111 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Evelyn S. Rawski

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

The State ◽

The West ◽

Historical Scholarship ◽

National Differences ◽

Research Themes ◽

Socioeconomic History ◽

Travel Abroad ◽

State Of The Field

China's political “opening to the West” in 1979–89 directly affected historical scholarship on Ming and Qing socioeconomic history. Some PRC scholars were able to travel abroad, others met foreign specialists at international conferences held in China, and many more were introduced to foreign scholarship through Chinese translations of articles and books published in Taiwan, Japan, Europe, and North America. Foreign scholars, also, profited from new access to archival sources for research; a few anthropologists and historians even were able to reside in the countryside and interview villagers. While increased access and scholarly exchange have enriched research, they have not erased national differences in interpretation and approach.

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The Ritual Formation of Confucian Orthodoxy and the Descendants of the Sage

The Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.2307/2646446 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 55 (3) ◽

pp. 559-584 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Thomas A. Wilson

Keyword(s):

Civil Service ◽

The State ◽

Pedagogical Practices ◽

Examination System ◽

Central Importance ◽

The West ◽

Recent Scholarship ◽

Civil Service Examination ◽

The Family

This essay explores the ritual dimension of the formation of Confucian orthodoxy in China from around the fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. Recent scholarship on orthodoxy has shown how the civil service examination system bound together hundreds of thousands of educated men with the court in pedagogical practices that effectively regulated what constituted acceptable knowledge of the classics used to legitimate the imperial regime and its policies. Without questioning the central importance of the examinations in the propagation of orthodoxy, in this essay I expand the scope of this problem to consider the role of ritual in reproducing orthodoxy by focusing on the uneasy convergence of the state cult of Kongzi—known in the West as Confucius—with the family cult of his flesh-and-blood descendants.

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Recent Scholarship on Chinese WomenTranscendence and Divine Passion: The Queen Mother of the West in Medieval China. Suzanne E. CahillThe Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period. Patricia Buckley EbreyEngendering China: Women, Culture and the State. Christina K. Gilmartin , Gail Hershatter , Lisa Rofel , Tyrene WhiteGender and Power in Rural North China. Ellen JuddTeachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China. Dorothy KoBody, Subject and Power in China. Angela Zito , Tani E. Barlow

Signs ◽

10.1086/495071 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 410-428 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ann Waltner

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

North China ◽

Chinese Women ◽

The State ◽

The West ◽

Recent Scholarship ◽

Medieval China ◽

Queen Mother

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ISLAMIC MORALITY IN LATE OTTOMAN “SECULAR” SCHOOLS

International Journal of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s0020743800021140 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 369-393 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Benjamin C. Fortna

Keyword(s):

Ottoman Empire ◽

World History ◽

The State ◽

Comparative Perspective ◽

Modernization Theory ◽

The West ◽

Recent Scholarship ◽

History Of ◽

Late Ottoman Empire ◽

Late Ottoman

Recent scholarship has taken great strides toward integrating the history of the late Ottoman Empire into world history. By moving beyond the view that the West was the prime agent for change in the East, historians have shed new light on indigenous efforts aimed at repositioning the state, reconceptualizing knowledge, and restructuring “society.”1 A comparative perspective has helped students of the period recognize that the late Ottoman Empire shared and took action against many of the same problems confronting its contemporaries, East and West. The assertion of Ottoman agency has been critical to finishing off the stereotype of the “sick man of Europe,” but the persistent legacies of modernization theory and nationalist historiography continue to obscure our view of the period.

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Supplemental Material for Clinical Psychological Assessment Training Issues in the COVID-19 Era: A Survey of the State of the Field and Considerations for Moving Forward

Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne ◽

10.1037/cap0000258.supp ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Psychological Assessment ◽

The State ◽

Assessment Training ◽

State Of The Field

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Economic and Legal Support for Commercialization of Intellectual Property in Russia

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2003-10-66-76 ◽

2003 ◽

pp. 66-76

Author(s):

I. Dezhina ◽

I. Leonov

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Property ◽

The State ◽

Commercial Application ◽

The West ◽

Role Of The State ◽

Legal Context

The article is devoted to the analysis of the changes in economic and legal context for commercial application of intellectual property created under federal budgetary financing. Special attention is given to the role of the state and to comparison of key elements of mechanisms for commercial application of intellectual property that are currently under implementation in Russia and in the West. A number of practical suggestions are presented aimed at improving government stimuli to commercialization of intellectual property created at budgetary expense.

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Rewriting the Narrative

California History ◽

10.1525/ch.2019.96.4.54 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 96 (4) ◽

pp. 54-77

Author(s):

Nicolas G. Rosenthal

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Native American ◽

American Indian ◽

Modern Society ◽

Mixed Media ◽

The State ◽

Historical Narratives ◽

Recent Scholarship ◽

Art Scene ◽

The 1960S

A vibrant American Indian art scene developed in California from the 1960s to the 1980s, with links to a broader indigenous arts movement. Native American artists working in the state produced and exhibited paintings, prints, sculptures, mixed media, and other art forms that validated and documented their cultures, interpreted their history, asserted their survival, and explored their experiences in modern society. Building on recent scholarship that examines American Indian migration, urbanization, and activism in the twentieth century, this article charts these developments and argues that American Indian artists in California challenged and rewrote dominant historical narratives by foregrounding Native American perspectives in their work.

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How to Define the Czechoslovak Underground

Muzeum Muzejní a vlastivedná práce ◽

10.2478/mmvp-2018-0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 56 (3) ◽

pp. 42-46

Author(s):

Barbara Bothová

Keyword(s):

Significant Influence ◽

The State ◽

Way Of Life ◽

The West ◽

State Security ◽

The Third ◽

Key Events

What is an underground? Is it possible to embed this particular way of life into any definition? After all, even underground did not have the need to define itself at the beginning. The presented text represents a brief reflection of the development of underground in Czechoslovakia; attention is paid to the impulses from the West, which had a significant influence on the underground. The text focuses on the key events that influenced the underground. For example, the “Hairies (Vlasatci)” Action, which took place in 1966, and the State Security activity in Rudolfov in 1974. The event in Rudolfov was an imaginary landmark and led to the writing of a manifesto that came into history as the “Report on the Third Czech Musical Revival.”

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The Munich conference of Minister-Presidents of German lands in 1947

OOO Zhurnal Voprosy Istorii ◽

10.31166/voprosyistorii202010statyi28 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 (10-2) ◽

pp. 86-98

Author(s):

Ivan Popov

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

State Governments ◽

The West ◽

Constitutional Development ◽

The Moment ◽

The One

The paper deals with the organization and decisions of the conference of the Minister-Presidents of German lands in Munich on June 6-7, 1947, which became the one and only meeting of the heads of the state governments of the western and eastern occupation zones before the division of Germany. The conference was the first experience of national positioning of the regional elite and clearly demonstrated that by the middle of 1947, not only between the allies, but also among German politicians, the incompatibility of perspectives of further constitutional development was existent and all the basic conditions for the division of Germany became ripe. Munich was the last significant demonstration of this disunity and the moment of the final turn towards the three-zone orientation of the West German elite.

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