This groundbreaking volume opens a new window on both modern and traditional Chinese literature, history and popular culture, demonstrating how a new style of reading brings us-the modern reader-closer to understanding how Chinese citizens perceived their world and what their writings reveal about the culture that produced them. Following the pioneering work of Professor Glen Dudbridge, this book brings together eight studies that develop a new style of reading Chinese sources by exploring the dynamics of discourse across open boundaries: those of fiction and history, literary and non-literary sources, official and vernacular culture, prose and poetry, records past and present, lost and extant, vernacular and classical, traditional and modern. Each chapter discusses how authors, editors and publishers use representation, editing and selection as means of self-fashioning and political propaganda.
Author(s): Andreas E. Buss
Series: (Studies in the history of religions ; v. 100)
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 222
Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 13
Introduction: Traditional Societies and Modernity-Approaches to the Study of Foreign Cultures......Page 14
PART ONE: BETWEEN TWO ALTERNATIVES......Page 22
Introduction......Page 24
The History of Science as a Search for Meaning......Page 25
The End of an Epoch......Page 28
Political Perspectives......Page 32
Russian Christianity......Page 34
Leo Tolstoy......Page 35
The Two Alternatives......Page 40
Conclusion......Page 43
PART TWO: THE ECONOMIC ETHICS OF RUSSIAN-ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY......Page 46
Introduction......Page 48
The Patrimonial State......Page 51
The Nobility......Page 54
The Merchants......Page 56
The Peasants......Page 59
The Patrimonial State and Capitalism......Page 62
The Orthodox Church and Monasticism......Page 64
The ‘Spirit’ of Orthodoxy......Page 70
The Origins of the Schism......Page 80
Old Believers and the Weber Thesis......Page 82
The Economic Ethics of Old Believers......Page 85
The Khlysty......Page 94
The Skoptsy......Page 98
The Dukhobors......Page 103
The Molokans......Page 105
Stundism......Page 108
Concluding Remarks on Old Believers and Sects......Page 109
CHAPTER FOUR: PARIAH-ETHICS AND THE RUSSIAN-ORTHODOX TRADITION......Page 112
PART THREE: THE PLACE OF INDIVIDUALISM IN THE EASTERN ORTHODOX TRADITION AND IN THE WEST......Page 118
Introduction......Page 120
Individualism and Holism among Outworldly Monks......Page 122
Church-State Relations in Byzantium......Page 127
Church-State Relations in Russia......Page 133
The Raskol and the Russian Sects......Page 137
Slavophiles and Populists......Page 141
Introduction......Page 150
The Axial Age......Page 152
Individualism in Antiquity......Page 155
Imperium and Sacerdotium in Early Christianity......Page 158
Early Christianity and the Concept of the Persona......Page 163
The Papal Revolution......Page 167
The Decisive Step of the Reformation......Page 173
Protestant Individualism and Personality according to Max Weber......Page 175
Natural Law Theory and Individualism......Page 178
The Rise of Individuality......Page 179
Concluding Remarks......Page 183
Theoretical Considerations......Page 185
The Russian Intelligentsia......Page 187
Changing Concepts of Nationality and Sovereignty......Page 189
Russian Socialism......Page 192
From Byzantine Icons to Modern Russian Art......Page 194
From Traditional to Modern Russian Music......Page 199
Epilogue: Trials and Errors Since the October Revolution......Page 203
Appendix: The Concept of Adequate Causation in Comparative Cultural Studies......Page 209
D......Page 223
H......Page 224
K......Page 225
P......Page 226
R......Page 227
W......Page 228
Bibliography......Page 229
F......Page 240
M......Page 241
S......Page 242
Z......Page 243
