Religion and Poetry in Medieval China
The Way and the Words
Series: Global Chinese Histories, 250-1650;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 December 2025
- ISBN 9781041185116
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages268 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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This volume of interdisciplinary essays examines the intersection of religion and literature in medieval China, focusing on the impact of Buddhism and Daoism on a wide range of elite and popular literary texts and religious practices in the 3rd-11th centuries CE.
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This volume of interdisciplinary essays examines the intersection of religion and literature in medieval China, focusing on the impact of Buddhism and Daoism on a wide range of elite and popular literary texts and religious practices in the 3rd-11th centuries CE. Drawing on the work of the interdisciplinary scholar Stephen Bokenkamp, the essays weave together the many cross-currents of religious, intellectual, and literary traditions in medieval China to provide vivid pictures of medieval Chinese religion and culture as it was lived and practiced. The contributors to the volume are all highly regarded experts in the fields of Chinese poetry, Daoism, Buddhism, popular religion, and literature. Their research papers cut across imagined disciplinary boundaries to show that the culture of medieval China can only be understood by close reading of texts from multiple genres, traditions, and approaches.
The interdisciplinary nature of this volume allows for a more holistic understanding of medieval Chinese cultural practices. By exploring the confluence of poetry and religion, particularly Daoism and Buddhism, Raz and Shields provide new insights into how these traditions intersected and shaped each other in unexpected ways.,- Richard G. Wang, Journal of Chinese History, issue 681, 2024
Table of Contents:
Introduction (Gil Raz and Anna M. Shields), Part 1: Poetry, 1. Brushing Past Rainbows: Religion and Poetry in the Xu Mi Stele (Jonathan Pettit), 2.Li Bo and Hu Ziyang: Companions of the Way (Paul W. Kroll), 3.Gao Pian: Poet and Patron (Franciscus Verellen), 4.Traces of the Way: The Poetry of Divine Transcendence in the Northern Song Anthology Literature's Finest (Anna M. Shields), Part II: Visuality and Materiality, 1. A Reexamination of the Second Chapter of the Array of the Five Talismans (Wang Zongyu), 2. True Forms and True Faces: Daoist and Buddhist Discourse on Images (Gil Raz), Part III: Texts and Contexts, 1. After the Apocalypse: The Evolving Ethos of the Celestial Master Daoists (Terry Kleeman), 2. Shangqing Scriptures as Performative Texts (Robert Ford Company), 3. The Sutra in Forty-Two Chapters: Beyond the Buddhist Canon (James Robson), 4.Taking Stock: The Scholarship of Daoism in Recent Decades (John Lagerwey),Epilogue,Traversing the Golden Porte: Problems with Daoist Studies (Stephen R. Bokenkamp)
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