The Souls of China
The Souls of China

Author: Ian Johnson

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1101870052

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From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist: a revelatory portrait of religion in China today, its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China's future. Following a century of violent antireligious campaigns, China is now awash with new temples, churches, and mosques as well as cults, sects, and politicians trying to harness religion for their own ends. Driving this explosion of faith is uncertainty over what it means to be Chinese, and how to live an ethical life in a country that discarded traditional morality a century ago and is still searching for new guideposts. Ian Johnson lived for extended periods with underground church members, rural Daoists, and Buddhist pilgrims. He has distilled these experiences into a cycle of festivals, births, deaths, detentions, and struggle a great awakening of faith that is shaping the soul of the world s newest superpower. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout).

The Soul of China
The Soul of China

Author: Richard Wilhelm

Publisher: Lethe Press

Published: 2007-11

Total Pages: 6

ISBN-13: 1590210565

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The Soul of China offers readers a tour of Chinese tradition and character lost to the modern era. Richard Wilhelm arrived in China before the Boxer Rebellion and stayed for a quarter of a century. He became intimate with retired princes and Taoist priests; he steeped himself in Chinese philosophy and occultism; he emerged with a profound respect for the Chinese culture. With chapters on the Revolution, Chinese country life, royalty and soundrels, and occultism and religious movements, this book is one man's fascinating travelogue and exploration of an important age in Chinese history. Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930) was a German scholar who translated many philosophical and spiritual works from Chinese into German that in turn have been translated into other major languages of the world, including English. His translation of the I Ching is regarded as one of the finest.

Out of Mao's Shadow
Out of Mao's Shadow

Author: Philip P. Pan

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1416537058

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An inside analysis of modern cultural and political upheavals in China by a fluent Beijing correspondent describes the power struggles currently taking place between the party elite and supporters of democracy, the outcome of which the author predicts will significantly affect China's rise to a world super-power. 125,000 first printing.

China Wakes
China Wakes

Author: Nicholas D. Kristof

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-10-12

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0307764230

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The definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower, and an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky. "Nick Kristof's and Sheryl WuDunn's work as correspondents in China was beyond compare, and now they have written a book every bit as astonishing. China Wakes is filled with anecdote, detail, and analysis of the highest order.... This book demands reading, and yet it is a pleasure as well as an education." —David Remnick, Editor of The New Yorker Featuring 16 pages of photos

Shifu, Soul of Chinese Anarchism
Shifu, Soul of Chinese Anarchism

Author: Edward S. Krebs

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0847690148

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The most comprehensive study of Shifu available, this valuable work explores the life and political milieu of a central figure in Republican China. Krebs provides an intellectual biography of this committed revolutionary and analyzes the importance of Shifu's thought during the New Culture-May Fourth years as his followers fought for influence with the Marxists and later over the issue of alliance with the Nationalists.

Essential Chan Buddhism
Essential Chan Buddhism

Author: Guo Jun

Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0983358915

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An inspiring introduction to Chan Buddhism in a value-priced hardcover edition. Perfect for daily spiritual guidance and gifts.

How Buddhism Acquired a Soul on the Way to China
How Buddhism Acquired a Soul on the Way to China

Author: Jungnok Park

Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781845539962

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Tells the story of the spread of Buddhist religious thinking and practice from India to China and how, along the way, a religion was changed.

Soulstealers
Soulstealers

Author: Philip A KUHN

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0674039777

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Midway through the reign of the Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, mass hysteria broke out among the common people. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land, clipping off the ends of men's queues (the braids worn by royal decree) and chanting magical incantations over them in order to steal the souls of their owners. In a fascinating chronicle of this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of soulstealers that ensued, Philip Kuhn opens a window on the world of eighteenth-century China.

Wealth and Power
Wealth and Power

Author: Orville Schell

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0679643478

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Two leading experts on China evaluate its rise throughout the past one hundred fifty years, sharing portraits of key intellectual and political leaders to explain how China transformed from a country under foreign assault to a world giant.