Fear, Heterodoxy, and Crime in Traditional China

Tommaso Previato, Ph.D. (2012), Sapienza University of Rome, is post-doc fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. His work lies at the intersection of history, gender, and religion, with a focus on the minority cultures of western China.

Preface


Acknowledgements


List of Figures


Notes on Contributors


Conventions





Introduction


 Tommaso Previato





Part 1: Gender and Forms of Rule in Inner Asian Cultures and Religions


1 Othering the Khitans: Fear, Gender, and Civilization in Song-Liao Relations


 Hang Lin





2 Motifs of Fear in Biographical Narratives of Rivalry between Mongolian Lamas and Shamans, and Its Echoes in Legal Codes (17th and 18th Centuries)


 Ágnes Birtalan





Part 2: State Policies, Agency and Representations of Abrahamic Traditions


3 Proactive Bureaucrats and Their Fears: the Controversy over Chinese Muslims and Christians in the Yongzheng Court


 Hung Tak Wai





4 Mirror of Desire or Fear? Chinese Emperors in Muslim Folklore and Modern Historiography


 Noriko Unno





5 Jihad, Emotion and the State in Chinese Islam: from the Martyrologies of Neo-Sufi Sectarians to the Glorious Death of Revolutionary Heroes


 Tommaso Previato





6 A Controversial Case of Iconoclasm and Temple Confiscation: the Impact of Zhong Rongguang and Chen Jinghua’s Religious Policies on 1910s Canton


 Ayumu Doi





Part 3: Emic Approaches to Chinese Buddhism and Folk Beliefs


7 Heresy, Discourse and Emotionality: a Sociological Perspective on Pan Lei’s Persecution of Chan Master Shilian Dashan


 Jing Li





8 Healing the Past, Shaping the Future: the Ontology of Emotion in the Lingji Ritual Tradition


 Fabian Graham





Index