Fear, Heterodoxy, and Crime in Traditional China

Toward an Anthropological History of Emotion and Its Social Management
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-68823-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 165, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: Sinica Leidensia

This multi-contributor volume examines the evolving relationship between fear, heterodoxy and crime in traditional China. It throws light on how these three variously interwoven elements shaped local policies and people’s perceptions of the religious, ethnic, and cultural “other.”

Authors depart from the assumption that “otherness” is constructed, stereotyped and formalized within the moral, political and legal institutions of Chinese society. The capacity of their findings to address questions about the emotional dimension of mass mobilization, the socio-political implications of heterodoxy, and attributions of crime is the result of integrating multiple sources of knowledge from history, religious studies and social science.

Contributors are Ágnes Birtalan, Ayumu Doi, Fabian Graham, Hung Tak Wai, Jing Li, Hang Lin, Tommaso Previato, and Noriko Unno.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Previato, Tommaso

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Conventions

Introduction

Tommaso Previato

Part 1: Gender and Forms of Rule in Inner Asian Cultures and Religions

1 Othering the Khitans: Fear, Gender, and Civilization in Song-Liao Relations

Hang Lin

2 Motifs of Fear in Biographical Narratives of Rivalry between Mongolian Lamas and Shamans, and Its Echoes in Legal Codes (17th and 18th Centuries)

Ágnes Birtalan

Part 2: State Policies, Agency and Representations of Abrahamic Traditions

3 Proactive Bureaucrats and Their Fears: the Controversy over Chinese Muslims and Christians in the Yongzheng Court

Hung Tak Wai

4 Mirror of Desire or Fear? Chinese Emperors in Muslim Folklore and Modern Historiography

Noriko Unno

5 Jihad, Emotion and the State in Chinese Islam: from the Martyrologies of Neo-Sufi Sectarians to the Glorious Death of Revolutionary Heroes

Tommaso Previato

6 A Controversial Case of Iconoclasm and Temple Confiscation: the Impact of Zhong Rongguang and Chen Jinghua’s Religious Policies on 1910s Canton

Ayumu Doi

Part 3: Emic Approaches to Chinese Buddhism and Folk Beliefs

7 Heresy, Discourse and Emotionality: a Sociological Perspective on Pan Lei’s Persecution of Chan Master Shilian Dashan

Jing Li

8 Healing the Past, Shaping the Future: the Ontology of Emotion in the Lingji Ritual Tradition

Fabian Graham

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tommaso Previato, Ph.D. (2012), Sapienza University of Rome, is post-doc fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. His work lies at the intersection of history, gender, and religion, with a focus on the minority cultures of western China.