CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

JAN KIELY AND J. BROOKS JESSUP

PART I: REPUBLICAN-ERA MODERNITY

1. Buddhist Activism, Urban Space, and Ambivalent Modernity in 1920s Shanghai

J. BROOKS JESSUP

2. Buddhism and the Modern Epistemic Space: Buddhist Intellectuals in the Science and Philosophy of Life Debates

ERIK J. HAMMERSTROM

3. A Revolution of Ink: Chinese Buddhist Periodicals in the Early Republic

GREGORY ADAM SCOTT

PART II: MIDCENTURY WAR AND REVOLUTION

4. Resurrecting Xuanzang: The Modern Travels of a Medieval Monk

BENJAMIN BROSE

5. Buddhist Efforts for the Reconciliation of Buddhism and Marxism in the Early Years of the People’s Republic of China

XUE YU

6. The Communist Dismantling of Temple and Monastic Buddhism in Suzhou

JAN KIELY

PART III: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL PRACTICE

7. Mapping Religious Difference: Lay Buddhist Textual Communities in the Post-Mao Period

GARETH FISHER

8. “Receiving Prayer Beads”: A Lay-Buddhist Ritual Performed by Menopausal Women in Ninghua, Western Fujian

NEKY TAK-CHING CHEUNG

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index