Chinese Buddhism and the scholarship of Erik Zürcher / edited by Jonathan A. Silk, Stefano Zacchetti.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. A Unique Trajectory: Erik Zurcher's Studies of Chinese Buddhism / Stefano Zacchettif -- 2. The Archaeology of Early Chinese Buddhism: Rethinking "Han Buddhism and the Western Region" /  Minku Kim --  3. The "Missing Majority": Dao'an's Anonymous Scriptures Revisited /  Jan Nattier --  4. Features of the Underlying Language of Zhi Qian's Chinese Translation of the Vimalakirtinirdesa /  Seishi Karashimaf --  5. No Room at the Inn: The Brief Daoist Experiment with Buddhist Notions of Self /  Stephen R. Bokenkamp --  6. Buddhist Monks and Oral Performance /  Barend J. ter Haar --  7. Jizang's Sanskrit /  Funayama Torn --  8. The Waning Years of the Eminent Monk Xuanzang and his Deification in China and Japan /  Liu Shufen --  9. Blind Spots and One-Way Tracks in Chinese Buddhist Historiography /  Stefano Zacchettif --  10. Buddhism in Premodem China and Its Periodization: In Search of a New Narrative /  Antonello Palwnbo --  11. Middle Kingdom and Wider Buddhist World: Introducing Some Neglected Sources from Late Imperial and Modern China /  T.H. Barrett --  12. Erik Ziircher's Study of Christianity in Seventeenth-Century China: An Intellectual Portrait /  Nicolas Standaert.

"China has a long and complex history of interactions with the world around it. One of the most successful imports-arguably the most successful before modern times and the impact of the West-is Buddhism, which, since the first centuries of the Common Era, has spread into almost every aspect of Chinese life, thought and practice. Erik Zürcher was one of the most important scholars to study the history of Buddhism in China, and the ways in which Buddhism in China gradually became Chinese Buddhism. More than half a century after the publication of Zürcher's landmark The Buddhist Conquest of China, we now have a collection of essays from the top contemporary specialists exploring aspects of the legacy of Zürcher's investigations, bringing forward new evidence, new ideas and reconsiderations of old theories to present an up-to-date and exciting expansion and revision of what was arguably the single most influential contribution to date on the history of Chinese Buddhism. Contributors are Tim Barrett, Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Funayama Toru, Barend ter Haar, Liu Shufen, Minku Kim, Jan Nattier, Antonello Palumbo, and Nicolas Standaert"-- Provided by publisher.

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Introduction / Jordan Paper and Anson H. Laytner -- Part I. Past -- Radhanites, Chinese Jews, and the Silk Road of the steppes / Nigel Thomas -- Eight centuries in the Chinese diaspora : the Jews of Kaifeng / Erik Zürcher -- Kaifeng Jews : sinification and the persistence of identity and history / Irene Eber -- The Confucianization of the Chinese Jews : interpretations of the Kaifeng stelae inscriptions / Andrew H. Plaks -- The Old Testament and Biblical figures in Chinese sources / Donald Daniel Leslie -- The issue of the Jewishness of Chinese Jewish magistrates / Jordan Paper -- Zhao Yingcheng from fact to fiction : the story of "The Great Advisor" / Moshe Yehuda Bernstein -- Part II. Present -- A history of early Jewish interactions with the Kaifeng Jews / Alex Bender -- Delving into the Israelite religion of Kaifeng : the patriotic scholar Shi Jingxun and his study of the origins of the plucking the Sinews Sect of Henan / Xianyi Kong -- Identity discourse and the Chinese Jewish descendants / Mathew A. Eckstein -- Messianic Zionism, settler colonialism, and the lost Jews of Kaifeng / Mohammed Turki al-Sudairi -- Between survival and revival : the impact of contemporary Western Jewish contact on Kaifeng Jewish identity / Anson H. Laytner -- Chronology.

EUCHINA note: Erik Zürcher (1928-2008), “Eight centuries in the Chinese diaspora: the Jews of Kaifeng”, pp. 25-38 (without footnotes and bibliography):

p. 38 n.1 (the only footnote): “Text of a lecture delivered before the Asiatic Society of Japan, Tokyo, May 25, 1995. Originally published in Sino-Judaica: Occasional papers of the Sino-Judaic Institute 3 (2000), pp. 11-21. Reprinted by permission of the Sino-Judaic Institute. Because it was an oral presentation, the editors have slightly modified the language of the article to reflect the appearance in a formal anthology.”
​For a summary (of the lecture) compiled by Hugh Wilkinson, see The Asiatic Society of Japan Bulletin, no. 7 (Sept. 1995), an adapted version of which can be consulted on http://www.asjapan.org/web.php/lectures/1995/05s.
The same lecture (shortened) Zürcher gave in Dutch on 12 Dec. 1994 (Amsterdam, KNAW), the full version of which (including footnotes [1-25] and a bibliography of 25 items, missing in the 2017 publication) was published as In de uiterste diaspora: de Joden van Kaifeng (20 p., ISBN 978-0444857893; Mededelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeling Letterkunde. Nieuwe Reeks, deel 58, No. 2, pp. 65-79).

For a kind of review, see the introduction pp. vii-xix (by the editors, Laytner and Paper), p. xi / xii:

"In his article included in this anthology, Zürcher’s expertise with the early Christian missions is highlighted in his discussion of the early contacts between the Kaifeng Jews and the Jesuit missionaries. In this discussion, he points to the Jesuit participation in the offerings to Confucius in the wenmiao (Temple of Civil Culture), which they justified by asserting that Confucianism was not a religion in the sense of Christianity. Jordan Paper’s article in this anthology focuses on the same problem in understanding the participation of Jewish literati in these same rituals. Although an expert on Chinese Buddhism and Christianity in China, Zürcher’s knowledge of Judaism is comparatively weak. Among several examples, he considers the presence of lion images in the Kaifeng synagogue an anomaly and hints that they were due to Chinese Buddhist influence, whereas it is common in synagogues worldwide, and he does not understand when tefillin are worn. But these few lapses do not lessen the importance of his presentation of the earliest contacts of the Kaifeng Jews with Christianity and his learned analysis of the survival of the Kaifeng Jews over so many centuries. Zürcher’s analysis concurs with Eber’s article in this anthology and the view of the editors, as seen tangentially in the article by Paper. This viewpoint is in contradistinction to most theories that assimilation led to the demise of Judaism in China, forgetting that assimilation took place many centuries before its heyday, let alone its collapse. It is the synthesis of Judaism and Chinese culture that led to Chinese Judaism in the fullest sense of the compound term and its great success in China."

Introduction / D. E. Mungello -- New trends in the historiography of Christianity in China / Nicolas Standaert -- Confucian and Christian religiosity in late Ming China / Erik Zurcher -- Bringing Christ to the nations : shifting models of mission among Jesuits in China / Jean-Paul Wiest.
Book reviews: Japan and Christianity: Impacts and responses (Breen & Williams) / Robt. T. Rush -- Christianity in China from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Daniel H. Bays) Jean-Paul Wiest -- Jesuit missionary letters from Mindanao, vol. II: Zamboanga-Basilan-Joló Mission (José Arcilla) / R. K. Edgerton.
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Forgive us our sins : Confession in late Ming and early Qing China / edited by Nicolas Standaert and Ad Dudink.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index.
Contents: Deliver us from evil : confession and salvation in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Chinese Catholicism / Eugenio Menegon -- Buddhist chanhui and Christian confession in seventeenth-century China / Erik Zürcher -- Illuminating the shades of sin : the Society of Jesus and confession in seventeenth-century China / Liam Matthew Brockey -- A missionary confessional manual : José Monteiro's Vera et Unica Praxis breviter ediscendi, ac expeditissime loquendi Sinicum idioma / Liam Matthew Brockey and Ad Dudink.

Includes: José Monteiro, Vera et unica praxis breviter ediscendi, ac expeditissime loquendi sinicum idioma [ff. 61-79]: Confissionario ; Shengjiao yaojin de daoli 聖教要緊的道禮 (i.e. 理). Ms. BnF, Chinois 7046-I. Illustrated pages from "The Last Four Things" [Simo zhenlun 四末真論 (1676) BAV: Borg. cin. 345.7] of Philippe Couplet. Comparison of Aleni’s Dizui zhenggui lüe 滌罪正規略 and Dizui zhenggui 滌罪正規. Texts: Confiteor [Jiezuijing 解罪經] and Act of Contrition [Huizuijing 悔罪經]. Four essentials of Confession [Gaojie siyao 告解四要].

"Confession in early modern Europe has been the subject of several studies. But what happened to the confessional practice when it moved to other cultures? This is the major research question of the present book as applied to late Ming and early Qing China. The origin of this research can be traced back to the Handbook of Christianity in China: Volume One (635-1800) (Leiden 2000) compiled by researchers of the K.U. Leuven, in collaboration with an international team of circa twenty scholars. As a reference work, the Handbook comprehensively presents many different aspects of Christianity in China, including sciences, arts and crafts. But there was one major absentee: ritual, which is often considered essential for understanding China. A first step in filling the gap was the organisation of an international workshop on 'Chinese and Christian Rituality in Late Imperial China' (Leuven, June 2004). The present volume includes the revised contributions by Eugenio Menegon and Erik Zürcher and a reworked version of an article by Liam Brockey as well as the edition of the primary source he used for his article, a confessional manual composed by José Monteiro S.J. (1646-1720). These articles portray from different angles one of the sacramental rituals, viz. that of confession"--Introd.

Kouduo richao : Li Jiubiao's Diary of oral admonitions : a Late Ming Christian journal / translated, with introduction and notes by Erik Zürcher.
Translation of: Kouduo richao. Includes original Chinese text from ARSI Jap-Sin I, 81 (vol.2).

See Chan Catalog entry for ARSI Japonica-Sinica I, 81

Includes bibliographical references (p. [771]-814).

"The Diary of Oral Admonitions (Kouduo richao) is an invaluable mirror of early Chinese Christianity, as it stands out as the only source that allows a glimpse of Jesuit missionary practice in China on a local level –accommodation in action – and of the various responses of the Chinese audience, both converts and interested outsiders. It is a compilation of some five hundred notes about everything made by Li Jiubiao and other Christian literati during their conversations with Jesuit missionaries in Fujian between 1630 and 1640. These notes are arranged in chronological order and divided into eight books."
"The most important Western protagonist in the Diary is the Italian Jesuit Giulio Aleni (1589–1642), called Master Ai (Rulüe) in Chinese. The present study and translation of the Diary of Oral Admonitions can be seen as a companion volume to the proceedings of an international conference that was held on Aleni in his native place [of] Brescia in 1994, also published in the Monumenta Serica Monograph Series XLII: Scholar from the West: Giulio Aleni S.J. (1582–1649) and the Dialogue between China and Christianity, 1997."
"The present work in two volumes is meant to be a tool for further research. Volume 1 presents a comprehensive introduction to the Diary and its historical context, followed by the annotated translation, both by Erik Zürcher (Leiden), a renown[ed] specialist for the study of Christianity in China. It is enhanced by illustrations, partly in colour [actually half-tone], and maps. Volume 2 includes a facsimile of the Chinese text (reproducing a copy held in the Roman Archives of the Society of Jesus), a bibliography of Chinese and Western sources as well as secondary literature, and an analytical index with glossary that will enable the reader to trace specific data in the text."

Contents:
Volume I.
Preface (7)
I. The Text (9)
Prologue: Fuzhou 1628/1629 (9); The Nature of the Diary and its Limitations (11); Title, Composition, and Successive Editions (14); Time Span and Geographical Range (21); Types of Entries: Dialogues, Stories, and Sermons (22); Intended Readership (25); The Diary and the Recorded Sayings (27)
II. The Scene (29)
Fujian as a Missionary Region (29); Church and Residence (33); Local Christian Communities and Associations (43); Christian Households (45)
III. The Actors: Missionaries (51)
The Scholars from the West (51); Giulio Aleni (Ai Rulüe, 1582–1649) (54); Andrzej Rudomina (Lu Ande, 1594–1632) (74); Bento de Mattos (Lin Bendu, 1600–1651) (76); Simão da Cunha (Qu Ximan, 1589–1660) (77)
IV. The Actors: Converts (77)
Numbers, Composition, and Geographical Distribution (77); Haikou: Stephen Li Jiubiao (d. 1647) and Thomas Li Jiugong (d. 1681) (80); Quanzhou: Matthew Zhang Geng (ca. 1570–1646/1647) (86); Zhangzhou: Ambrose Yan Zanhua (d. ca. 1695) (94); Jianning: Stephen Li Sixuan (d. after 1661) (97)
V. The Actors: Outsiders (102)
VI. Doctrine (106)
The First Steps: Entering the Doctrine (106); The Lord of Heaven: Creator, Great Parent, and Supreme Ruler (113); Incarnation, Passion, and Redemption (118); Supernatural Powers of Good and Evil: Angels and Devils (121); Mediators and Patrons: The Holy Mother and All the Saints (126); Death and the Hereafter (136); Body and Soul (142); Merit and Grace, Sin and Penance (148)
VII. Communial Rituals: Holy Mass and Funeral (156)
VIII. Social Aspects (162)
Tension and Conflict (162); Gender Relations: Marriage and the Prohibition of Concubinage (164); Social Inequality: In Praise of Poverty (167)
IX. Western Studies
(Pre)history, Science, and Technology (169) The Sciences and the Primacy of Religion (169); Prehistory: The Chronicles of Judea (171); Natural Science (173)
Appendix: In memoriam Giulio Alleni by Antonio de Gouvea (176)

The Diary of Oral Admonitions: Annotated Translation
Volume I
Preface by Zhang Geng ................................. 181
Preface by Lin Yijun ...................................... 183
Brief Introduction by Li Jiubiao ........................ 186
Editorial Principles (fanli) ................................ 188
BOOK I (13 March 1630 - 24 March 1631) ......... 191
BOOK II (1 May - 28 November 1631) ............... 253
BOOK III (7 January - 12 September 1632) ........ 319
BOOK IV (14 march - 16 October 1633) ............. 379
BOOK V (24 November 1633 - 29 June 1634) ...... 427
BOOK VI (29 July 1634 - 25 September 1636) ..... 475
BOOK VII (22 January - 28 October 1637) .......... 523
BOOK VIII (23 September 1638 - 4 July 1640) ..... 571

Volume II
The Chinese Text of Kouduo richao .... 619
Bibliography ................................... 771
Index and Glossary .......................... 815

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