Heterodoxy in late Imperial China
By: edited by Kwang-Ching Liu and Richard Shek.
Contributors: Liu, Kwang-Ching, 1921-; Shek, Richard Hon-Chun.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 523
Subjects: Heresy; China -- Religion -- History
Description: "Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China attempts to define the efforts of groups and individuals to propose alternatives to the formidable socio-ethical orthodoxy of China's heritage. By approaching modern China from its long-standing tradition of dissent, it provides essential reading for those seeking the enduring themes of China's nonofficial history and especially the transition between the late imperial and modern eras."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Early Daoism in retrospect: cosmology, ethics, and eschatology / Kwang-Ching Liu and Richard Shek; title: Ethics and polity: the heterodoxy of Buddhism, Maitreyanism, and the early White Lotus / Richard Shek; title: The origins of Ming Buddhist schism / Whalen W. Lai; title: Daoism and orthodoxy: the loyal and filial sect / Richard Shek; title: Daoism and local cults: a case study of the Cult of Marshal Wen / Paul R. Katz; title: Shamanism in the eyes of the Ming and Qing elites / Donald S. Sutton; title: Eternal mother religion: its history and ethics / Richard Shek and Tetsurō Noguchi; title: Religion and politics in the White Lotus Rebellion of 1796 in Hubei / Kwang-Ching Liu; title: The triads and their ideology up to the early nineteenth century: a brief history / Wen-hsiung Hsu; title: The Heaven and Earth Society in the nineteenth century: an interpretation / David Faure; title: The Taipings in Chinese sectarian perspective / P. Richard Bohr; title: Popular and elite heterodoxy toward the end of the Qing / Don C. Price.