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Author:   Mu-chou Poo (, Professor of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong) ,  H. A. Drake (, Research Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara) ,  Lisa Raphals (, Professor, Chinese and Comparative Literature, University of California, Riverside)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.621kg
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9780190278359

ISBN 10:   0190278358
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   15 June 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Table of Contents Preface Contributors List of Figures and Credits Introduction: Old Society, New Faith (Mu-chou Poo and H.A. Drake) Part One. Initial Encounters and Causes of Resistance Chapter 1 ""Buddhism enters China"" in Early Medieval China (Robert Campany) Chapter 2 Christianity and Rome: A Study in Power Relationships (H.A. Drake) Chapter 3 Aesthetics of Enlightenment: Philosophical Continuity and Rhetorical Innovation in the Poetics of Roman Architecture (Mira Seo) Chapter 4 Justin Martyr and Tatian: Christian reactions to encounters with Greco-Roman culture and imperial persecution (Hyun Jin Kim) Chapter 5 When Buddhism Meets the Chen-Wei Prophetic and Apocryphal Discourse: A Religious Encounter in Early Medieval China (Zongli Lu) Chapter 6 Honoring the Dead: The Buddhist Reinvention of Portrait Eulogies in Early Medieval China (Huai-yu Chen) Part Two. Interaction, Influence, and Accommodation Chapter 7 Buddhism Challenged, Adopted, and in Disguise: Daoist and Buddhist Interactions in Medieval China (Gil Raz) Chapter 8 Roman Allotment and the Election of Bishops (Roberta Stewart) Chapter 9 Colonizing the Supernatural: How Daim?n Became Demonized in Late Antiquity (Sze-kar Wan) Chapter 10 The Taming of Ghosts in Early Buddhism (Mu-chou Poo) Chapter 11 A Matter of Life and Death: the Development of Nirvana Images in the Northern Dynasties (Chuan-Ying Yen) Part Three. Synthesis and Assimilation Chapter 12 Pagan Statues, Christian City: Constantinople and the Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai (Paroma Chatterjee) Chapter 13 Adaptation and Assimilation of Buddhism in China as reflected in Monastic Architecture (Yin Zhou) Chapter 14 Understanding Retribution in a Changing Religious Landscape: The Case of Yan Zhitui ??? (531-591) (Natasha Heller) Chapter 15 From Superstitio to Heresy: Law and Divine Justice (Fourth-Fifth Centuries CE) (Michele Renee Salzman) Conclusion: Comparative Perspectives on China and Rome (Lisa Raphals)"

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MCP: Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei (1984-2009); Professor of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2009- ). H.A.D: Received his PhD in ancient history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1970. He has spent his entire career at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he specializes in the history of the later Roman empire and interaction between Christians and pagans in the fourth century. LR: Professor, University of California, Riverside (1998- ).

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