Course Description: This course examines Chinese religious and intellectual history from circa 1000 to 1900 through reading secondary literature. It covers Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, and popular religion, and highlights how these religious traditions interacted with each other. We will discuss the gendered expression of Chinese worship and how the history transformed the symbolic order of the religious
world and how history was symbolically ordered and reordered in the process.
no need for outside resources. Please try best to use the resources I provide here to support your idea. You can write anything based on the reading and related to the the gendered expression of Chinese worship and how the history transformed the symbolic order of the religious
world and how history was symbolically ordered and reordered in the process.
Reading:
Peter Bol, Neo-Confucianism in History (Harvard University Press, 2008), Introduction,
Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7
Yuhang Li, Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial
China (Columbia University Press, 2020), pp. 1- 204.