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Jingjiao Under the Lenses of Chinese Political Theology
religions Article Jingjiao under the Lenses of Chinese Political Theology Chin Ken-pa Department of Philosophy, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City 24205, Taiwan; [email protected] Received: 28 May 2019; Accepted: 16 September 2019; Published: 26 September 2019 Abstract: Conflict between religion and state politics is a persistent phenomenon in human history. Hence it is not surprising that the propagation of Christianity often faces the challenge of “political theology”. When the Church of the East monk Aluoben reached China in 635 during the reign of Emperor Tang Taizong, he received the favorable invitation of the emperor to translate Christian sacred texts for the collections of Tang Imperial Library. This marks the beginning of Jingjiao (oY) mission in China. In historiographical sense, China has always been a political domineering society where the role of religion is subservient and secondary. A school of scholarship in Jingjiao studies holds that the fall of Jingjiao in China is the obvious result of its over-involvement in local politics. The flaw of such an assumption is the overlooking of the fact that in the Tang context, it is impossible for any religious establishments to avoid getting in touch with the Tang government. In the light of this notion, this article attempts to approach this issue from the perspective of “political theology” and argues that instead of over-involvement, it is rather the clashing of “ideologies” between the Jingjiao establishment and the ever-changing Tang court’s policies towards foreigners and religious bodies that caused the downfall of Jingjiao Christianity in China. This article will posit its argument based on the analysis of the Chinese Jingjiao canonical texts, especially the Xian Stele, and takes this as a point of departure to observe the political dynamics between Jingjiao and Tang court. -
From Beit Abhe to Angamali: Connections, Functions and Roles of the Church of the East’S Monasteries in Ninth Century Christian-Muslim Relations
Middlesex University Research Repository An open access repository of Middlesex University research http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk Cochrane, Steve (2014) From Beit Abhe to Angamali: connections, functions and roles of the Church of the East’s monasteries in ninth century Christian-Muslim relations. PhD thesis, Middlesex University / Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. [Thesis] Final accepted version (with author’s formatting) This version is available at: https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/13988/ Copyright: Middlesex University Research Repository makes the University’s research available electronically. Copyright and moral rights to this work are retained by the author and/or other copyright owners unless otherwise stated. The work is supplied on the understanding that any use for commercial gain is strictly forbidden. A copy may be downloaded for personal, non-commercial, research or study without prior permission and without charge. Works, including theses and research projects, may not be reproduced in any format or medium, or extensive quotations taken from them, or their content changed in any way, without first obtaining permission in writing from the copyright holder(s). They may not be sold or exploited commercially in any format or medium without the prior written permission of the copyright holder(s). Full bibliographic details must be given when referring to, or quoting from full items including the author’s name, the title of the work, publication details where relevant (place, publisher, date), pag- ination, and for theses or dissertations the awarding institution, the degree type awarded, and the date of the award. If you believe that any material held in the repository infringes copyright law, please contact the Repository Team at Middlesex University via the following email address: [email protected] The item will be removed from the repository while any claim is being investigated. -
Manichaeism and Its Spread Into China
University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Supervised Undergraduate Student Research Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects and Creative Work Spring 4-2002 Manichaeism and its Spread into China Jennifer Marie Dan University of Tennessee - Knoxville Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_chanhonoproj Recommended Citation Dan, Jennifer Marie, "Manichaeism and its Spread into China" (2002). Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_chanhonoproj/529 This is brought to you for free and open access by the Supervised Undergraduate Student Research and Creative Work at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Appendix E - UNIVERSITY HONORS PROGRA_lYI SENIOR PROJECT - APPROVAL College: I\("t~~ bc.\4rl~ Depanment: C \ Q ~ ~ i. Co :. r have reviewed this completed senior honors thesis with this student and certify that it is a project commensurate with honors level undergraduate research in this field. - \ '""' ) .A, ' Signed: ___1._----_-- ---=1.:....'..,:/_• ....:'-::..,./ _.::::---:....-_________• Faculty Mentor General Assessment - please provide a short paragraph that highlights the most significant features of the project. Comments (Optional): This project pursues Jennifer's recondite interest in the ancient dualistic religion of Manichaeism, known to most of us only through St. Augustine. Jennifer shows a command of appropriate bibliography and strong synthetic ability in presenting a picture of Mani and of his teachings. Jennifer further describes precisely the spread of Manichaeism to China along the Silk Road. -
Manichaean Gnosis and Creation Myth
SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS Number 156 July, 2005 Manichaean Gnosis and Creation Myth by Abolqasen Esmailpour Victor H. Mair, Editor Sino-Platonic Papers Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA [email protected] www.sino-platonic.org SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS FOUNDED 1986 Editor-in-Chief VICTOR H. MAIR Associate Editors PAULA ROBERTS MARK SWOFFORD ISSN 2157-9679 (print) 2157-9687 (online) SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS is an occasional series dedicated to making available to specialists and the interested public the results of research that, because of its unconventional or controversial nature, might otherwise go unpublished. The editor-in-chief actively encourages younger, not yet well established, scholars and independent authors to submit manuscripts for consideration. Contributions in any of the major scholarly languages of the world, including romanized modern standard Mandarin (MSM) and Japanese, are acceptable. In special circumstances, papers written in one of the Sinitic topolects (fangyan) may be considered for publication. Although the chief focus of Sino-Platonic Papers is on the intercultural relations of China with other peoples, challenging and creative studies on a wide variety of philological subjects will be entertained. This series is not the place for safe, sober, and stodgy presentations. Sino- Platonic Papers prefers lively work that, while taking reasonable risks to advance the field, capitalizes on brilliant new insights into the development of civilization. Submissions are regularly sent out to be refereed, and extensive editorial suggestions for revision may be offered. Sino-Platonic Papers emphasizes substance over form. We do, however, strongly recommend that prospective authors consult our style guidelines at www.sino-platonic.org/stylesheet.doc. -
Islamic Modernism in China: Chinese Muslim Elites, Guomindang Nation-Building, and the Limits of the Global Umma, 1900-1960
Islamic Modernism in China: Chinese Muslim Elites, Guomindang Nation-Building, and the Limits of the Global Umma, 1900-1960 John Tseh-han Chen Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2018 © 2018 John Tseh-han Chen All rights reserved ABSTRACT Islamic Modernism in China: Chinese Muslim Elites, Guomindang Nation-Building, and the Limits of the Global Umma, 1900-1960 John Tseh-han Chen Modern Chinese Muslims’ increasing connections with the Islamic world conditioned and were conditioned by their elites’ integrationist politics in China. Chinese Muslims (the “Hui”) faced a predicament during the Qing and Ottoman empire-to-nation transitions, seeking both increased contact with Muslims outside China and greater physical and sociopolitical security within the new Chinese nation-state. On the one hand, new communication and transport technologies allowed them unprecedented opportunities for transnational dialogue after centuries of real and perceived isolation. On the other, the Qing’s violent suppression of Muslim uprisings in the late nineteenth century loomed over them, as did the inescapable Han-centrism of Chinese nationalism, the ongoing intercommunal tensions between Muslims and Han, and the general territorial instability of China’s Republican era (1911-49). As a result, Islamic modernism—a set of positions emphasizing both reason and orthodoxy, and arguing that true or original Islam is compatible with science, education, democracy, women’s rights, and other “modern” norms— took on new meanings in the context of Chinese nation-making. In an emerging dynamic, ethos, and discourse of “transnationalist integrationism,” leading Chinese Muslims transformed Islamic modernism, a supposedly foreign body of thought meant to promote unity and renewal, into a reservoir of concepts and arguments to explain and justify the place of Islam and Muslims in China, and in so doing made it an integral component of Chinese state- and nation-building. -
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Between Winds and Clouds Bin Yang Bibliography Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Before European Hegemony. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Ahmad, Nisar. "Assam-Bengal Trade in the Medieval Period: A Numismatic Perspective." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 33 (1996), 169-198. Allen, Barry. "Power/Knowledge." In Critical Essays on Michel Foucault, ed. Karlis Racevskis. New York: G. K. Hall, 1999, 69-81. Anningzhou Zhi (Gazetteer of Anning Department). Kangxi edition (1709). Armijo-Hussein, Jacqueline Misty. "Sayyid'Ajall Shams Al-Din: A Muslim from Central Asia, Serving the Mongols in China and Bringing 'Civilization' to Yunnan." Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1996. Atwill, David G. The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856–1873. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. Backus, Charles. Nanzhao and Tang's Southwestern Frontier. London: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Basham, A. L. The Wonder That Was India. New York: Grove Press, 1959. Beckwith, Christopher I. The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia: A History of the Struggle for Great Power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the Early Middle Ages. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987. Bockman, Harald. "Yunnan Trade in Han Times: Transit, Tribute and Trivia." In Asian Trade Routes, ed. Karl Reinhold Haellquist. London: Curzon Press, 1991, 174-180. Brown, Melissa, ed. Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan. Berkeley: The Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1996. Caffrey, Kevin. "Who 'Who' Is, and Other Local Poetics of National Policy." China Information, 18 (July 2004), 243-274. Cammann, Schuyler Van R. -
A History of Reading in Late Imperial China, 1000-1800
A HISTORY OF READING IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA, 1000-1800 DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for The Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Li Yu, M.A. * * * * * The Ohio State University 2003 Dissertation Committee: Approved by Professor Galal Walker, advisor Professor Mark Bender Professor Cynthia J. Brokaw ______________________________ Professor Patricia A. Sieber Advisor East Asian Languages and Literatures ABSTRACT This dissertation is a historical ethnographic study on the act of reading in late imperial China. Focusing on the practice and representation of reading, I present a mosaic of how reading was conceptualized, perceived, conducted, and transmitted from the tenth to the eighteenth centuries. My central argument is that reading, or dushu, was an indispensable component in the tapestry of cultural life and occupied a unique position in the landscape of social history in late imperial China. Reading is not merely a psychological act of individuals, but also a set of complicated social practices determined and conditioned by social conventions. The dissertation consists of six chapters. Chapter 1 discusses motivation, scope, methodology, and sources of the study. I introduce a dozen different Chinese terms related to the act of reading. Chapter 2 examines theories and practices of how children were taught to read. Focusing on four main pedagogical procedures, namely memorization, vocalization, punctuation, and explication, I argue that the loud chanting of texts and the constant anxiety of reciting were two of the most prominent themes that ran through both the descriptive and prescriptive discourses on the history of reading in late imperial ii China. -
School of Economics and Management Tsinghua University 2016-2017 Tsinghua SEM 2016 - 2017 Contents
2016 - 2017 Tsinghua SEM 01 School of Economics and Management Tsinghua University 2016-2017 Tsinghua SEM 2016 - 2017 Contents Contents 02 Deans’ Messages 06 About Tsinghua SEM 12 Faculty 04 Tsinghua Overview 06 Milestones 13 Accounting 09 Organizational Structure 15 Economics 10 The Advisory Board 20 Finance 23 Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy 27 Leadership and Organization Management 29 Management Science and Engineering 33 Marketing 2016 - 2017 Tsinghua SEM Contents 01 MISSION To Advance Knowledge and Cultivate Leaders for China and World. ASPIRATION To Be a World-Class School of Economics and Management. CORE VALUES Integrity Dedication Respect 37 Programs 56 Research 64 International Collaborations 38 Undergraduate Programs 56 Research Overview 40 Doctoral Programs 57 Major Research Projects 67 Resource 42 Master’s Programs 59 Papers Published on Tsinghua SEM List Development of International Journals in 2015 44 MBA Programs 46 EMBA Programs 62 China Journal of Economics 68 Alumni 48 Executive Education Programs 62 Tsinghua Business Review 49 Collaborative Degree Programs 62 China Business Case Center 50 Tsinghua x-lab 63 Research Support 52 Tsinghua SEM X-elerator 54 Online Education Tsinghua SEM 2016 - 2017 02 Deans’ Messages Deans’ Messages 2015 - 2016 Tsinghua SEM Deans’ Messages 03 Building socialism with Chinese characteristics requires many talented people in economics and management who understand both the general rules of the market economy and the particular circumstances of Chinese enterprises. Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management should learn from all the great schools of economics and management around the world and adopt their teaching contents, methods and tools and apply them to the Chinese situation. -
Prods Oktor Skjærvø an Introduction to Manicheism
Prods Oktor Skjærvø An Introduction to Manicheism Early Iranian Civilizations 103 = DivSchool 3580, 2006 Fall term Copyright © 2006 by Prods Oktor Skjærvø Please do not cite without the author’s permission. 2 September 22, 2006 BIBLIOGRAPHY Manicheism and Gnosticism • J. P. Asmussen, Manichaean Literature, Persian Heritage Series 22, Delmar, New York, 1975. • I. Gardner and S. N.C. Lieu, eds., Manichaean texts from the Roman Empire, Cambridge and New York, 2004. • K. L. King, What is Gnosticism?, Cambridge, Mass., 2003. • S. N. C. Lieu, Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China. A Historical Survey, Manchester, 1985. • S. N. C. Lieu, Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East, Leiden, 1994. • S. N. C. Lieu, Manichaeism in Central Asia and China, Leiden, etc., 1998. H.-C. Puech, Le manichéisme, son fondateur, sa doctrine, Paris, 1949. • K. Rudolph, Gnosis. The Nature and History of Gnosticism, tr. and ed. R. M. Wilson, San Francisco, etc., 1987. Texts. I. Collections A. Adam, Texte zum Manichäismus, Berlin, 1969. A. Böhlig and J. P. Asmussen, eds. and trsls., Die Gnosis III: Der Manichäismus, Zürich and Munich, 1980. M. Boyce, A Catalogue of the Iranian Manuscripts in Manichean Script in the German Turfan Collection, Berlin, 1960. • H.-J. Klimkeit, Gnosis on the Silk Road. Gnostic Parables, Hymns and Prayers, Harper San Fransisco, 1993. A. Welburn, Mani, the Angel and the Column of Glory. An Anthology of Manichean Texts, Floris Books, 1998. Texts. II. Coptic C. R. C. Allberry, A Manichean Psalm-Book II, Manichean Manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Collection 2, Stuttgart, 1938. I. Gardner, “A Manichaean Liturgical Codex Found at Kellis,” Orientalia 62, 1993, pp. -
The Bible Translator (Vol
TECHNICAL PAPERS FOR Published twice yearly (January and July) THE BIBLE by the United Bible Societies TRANSLATOR Vol. 59, No. 3, July 2008 EDITOR: Roger L. Omanson EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Rosario U. Yu REVIEWS EDITOR: Lénart J. de Regt EDITORIAL BOARD: Prof Lourens de Vries Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dr Cynthia Miller University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc., U.S.A. Dr Graham Ogden Former Translation Consultant, UBS, Asia-Pacific Region, Australia Dr Stanley Porter McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Dr Vilson Scholz Translation Consultant, The Bible Society of Brazil, São Leopoldo, Brazil Dr Ernst Wendland Translation Consultant, UBS, Africa Region, Lusaka, Zambia NESTORIAN MISSIONARY BIBLE TRANSLATIONTOSHIKAZU S. FOLEY IN CHINA TranslatinG BIBLICAL TEXTS into CHINESE: The Pioneer Venture of the Nestorian Missionaries The author is a research and writing staff member under contract with the Bible Society in Taiwan, currently working on the Chinese Union Version Study Bible Project. The history of early Nestorian missionary activity in China during the Tang Dynasty (618-906 C.E.)1 remains little known to western audiences. An even lesser known fact is that the Nestorians had ventured on the task of translating Christian concepts and biblical texts into Chinese. Based on historical documents, this essay offers an in-depth investigation of the Nestorian missionaries’ active involvement in translating the Bible into Chinese. The Nestorian Stele Bible translation into Chinese languages began in the seventh century C.E. A reliable source that can support the evidence of the introduction of the Christian faith is the Nestorian Stele2 from the eighth century. Nestorians were members of 1 This essay is a revision of a paper originally presented (with the same title) at the SBL/AAR/ASOR 2007 Upper Midwest Regional Meeting held at Luther Seminary, St. -
Remains of the Religion of Light in Xiapu (霞浦) County, Fujian Province
chapter 13 Remains of the Religion of Light in Xiapu (霞浦) County, Fujian Province Ma Xiaohe This paper draws attention to the recent discoveries in Xiapu County, Fujian province, on the development and survival of the Religion of Light in this area. Whilst this sect could have disappeared like many others, a legend about Lin Deng survived and won popularity among the locals. His merits were recorded in many local gazettes and he was conferred with the title of “Chief Thunder Apostle” by the officials with the approval of the imperial throne. Since then this cult has gained legal protection, tremendous influence among local people, and has survived for nearly a millennium. Most importantly, quite a few manuscripts of this cult survive and are now in the possession of priests in Baiyang Township. Xiapu is a county in the northeast part of Fujian Province, bordering the East China Sea. Its administrative history over the centuries is summarized below: Dynasty Reign/year Xiapu Tang 唐 618–907 Wude 武德 6 (623) Changxi County 长溪县 Yuan 元 1271–1368 Zhiyuan 至元 23 (1286) Funing Prefecture 福宁州 Ming 明 1368–1644 Hongwu 洪武 2 (1369) Funing County 福宁县 Chenghua 成化 9 (1473) Funing Prefecture 福宁州 Qing 清 1644–1911 Yongzheng 雍正 12 (1734) Funing Prefecture 福宁府 Xiapu County 霞浦县 Republic 民国 1911–1949 Belongs to Minhai Circuit 闽海道 People’s Republic of China Belongs to 中华人民共和国 1949– Fuan District 福安专区 Ningde District 宁德地区 Ningde City 宁德市 © koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2015 | doi: 10.1163/9789004289123_014 remains of the religion of light in xiapu (霞浦) county 229 Xiapu County is divided into two sub-districts 街道, six towns 镇, three townships 乡, and three townships of minorities. -
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European Journal European Journal of of East Asian Studies 19 (2020) 297–323 East Asian Studies brill.com/ejea A Historian’s Ethical Duty Chen Yuan’s ‘Illumination of the Subtle’ in Occupied Beiping Yuan Yidan Capital Normal University, Beijing, China [email protected] Abstract In the wake of Japan’s occupation of Beiping (now Beijing) in 1937, the historian Chen Yuan’s choice between staying in or leaving the city (which would imply accommoda- tion or resistance) was regarded not merely as a personal decision but also as a symbolic stance for the ethical principles of the Chinese intelligentsia. Based on a close read- ing of Chen’s historical writings during the Japanese occupation, this paper focuses on the inner world of this historian, and argues that a salient rhetorical feature of Chen’s wartime work was its role as a mechanism which he referred to as ‘illuminat- ing the subtle’. This involved historical facts being cited and interpreted in a way that demonstrated the historian’s attitude and feelings towards contemporary events. It is proposed that the ‘illumination of the subtle’ is not accepted at face value as academic research, but rather that it is treated as a rhetorical device, in order to understand the inner logic and dynamism of this expressive mechanism. Keywords Chen Yuan – Beiping (Beijing) – occupation – historiography – ethical dilemma 1 Introduction After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which broke out on 7 July 1937, the fate of Chen Yuan 陳垣 (1880–1971),1 stranded in Beiping (now Beijing), became the 1 For a brief overview of Chen Yuan, see Howard Boorman and Janet Krompart (eds), Biograph- ical Dictionary of Republican China (New York: Columbia University Press, 1967), 261–264.