March 7, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Religion
Call for applicants for our 2022-2023 Postdoctoral Fellowship in China’s “Western Regions.”
Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies
A new photography exhibition at Harvard University depicts everyday life in Xinjiang, China’s westernmost region.
Lei Ying, Graduate Student Associate at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Ph.D. Candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, examines the influence of Buddhist texts on Chinese canonical writer Lu Xun.
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · How Should We Use the Chinese Past? With Leigh Jenco In the West, we often consider Western philosophical discourse to have a degree
This book explores the modern recategorization of religious practices and people and examines how state power affected the religious lives and physical order of local communities. It also looks at how politicians conceived of their own ritual role in an era when authority was meant to derive from popular sovereignty.
James Robson’s analysis of the importance of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue) to the imperial cult and how this critical space was negotiated by Daoists and Buddhists demonstrates the value of local studies and the emerging field of Buddho–Daoist studies in research on Chinese religion.
This groundbreaking study explores this underappreciated aspect of Chinese political life by investigating rainmaking activities organized or conducted by local officials in the Qing dynasty; using a wide variety of primary sources, this study explains how and why state rainmaking became a prominent feature of the late imperial religious landscape.