Reimagining a Buddhist Cosmopolis: Conveying Marble Buddhas from Burma to China, 1890s-1930s > It examines how the fascination with marble, which is vernacularly categorized as 'white jade' in Chinese, motivated such endeavors and how these icons shaped the perception of a developing Buddhist cosmopolis among Chinese Buddhists by helping them locate Burma in the Buddhist world in a spiritually and materially meaningful way.

📰 Conveying Marble Buddhas from Burma to China, 1890s-1930s (A free, 22-page article from 2023)

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A Spiritual Evolutionism: Lü Cheng, Aesthetic Revolution, and the Rise of a Buddhism-Inflected Social Ontology in Modern China > This study examines the early career of the renowned Buddhologist Lü Cheng as an aspiring revolutionary. > My findings reveal that Lü's rhetoric of "aesthetic revolution" both catapulted him into the center of the New Culture Movement and popularized a Buddhist idealism—Yogācāra—among thinkers who sought alternative social theories.

📰 Lü Cheng, Aesthetic Revolution, and the Rise of a Buddhism-Inflected Social Ontology in Modern China (A free, 27-page article from 2021)

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#DOTD: Fu Ssu-nien (Sinian #傅斯年, 1896–1950), historian, linguist, and founder of the Institute of History and Philology (IHP) 中研院史語所 at #AcademiaSinica. One of the main brokers of academic networks in #ModernChina/ #RepublicanChina, his letters alone fill several volumes. #Taiwan #History #Philology

#BOTD: Gu Jiegang #顧頡剛 (1893–1980), #Chinese historian, representative of the 'Doubting #Antiquity' #疑古 Movement in #RepublicanChina, founder and editor of the Critiques of #AncientHistory #古史辨.

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#DOTD in #Taiwan: Fu Ssu-nien (Sinian #傅斯年, 1896–1950), historian, linguist, and founder of Institute of History and Philology #IHP, #AcademiaSinica. One of the main brokers of academic networks in #ModernChina/ #RepublicanChina, his letters alone fill several volumes.

#BOTD: Gu Jiegang #顧頡剛 (1893–1980), #Chinese historian, representative of the 'Doubting #Antiquity' #疑古 Movement in #RepublicanChina, founder and editor of the Critiques of #AncientHistory #古史辨.