Bibliography on Contemporary Chinese Buddhism (up to 2020)

Le site du CEIB, par son travail de veille bibliographique, vise à proposer des outils utiles aux travaux des chercheurs et doctorants spécialisés sur les études bouddhiques. Cette première mouture synthétique, d’une bibliographie choisie sur le bouddhisme chinois contemporain, sera complétée d’autres publications similaires, relatives aux aires voisines.

Ashiwa, Yoshiko. 2000. “Dynamics of the Buddhist Revival Movement in South China: State, Society, and Transnationalism.” Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Studies 32(1): 15 ̶ 31.

⸺. 2009. “Positioning Religion in Modernity: State and Buddhism in China.” In Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China, ed. Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank, 43 ̶ 73. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Ashiwa, Yoshiko and David L. Wank (eds). 2009. Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Ashiwa, Yoshiko and David L. Wank. 2005. “The Globalization of Chinese Buddhism: Clergy and Devotee Networks in the Twentieth Century.” International Journal of Asian Studies, 2(2): 217 ̶ 37.

⸺. 2019. “A Study of Laynuns in Minnan, 1920s–2010s: Buddhism, State Institutions, and Popular culture.” In Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions, ed. Ji Zhe, Gareth Fisher, and André Laliberté, 210–50. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.Bianchi, Ester. 1999. “Arapacana-Manjusri e la scuola dGe lugs pa. Un esempio di sinizzazione tantrica nella Cina contemporanea.” In Facets of Tibetan Religious Tradition and Contacts with Neighbouring Cultural Areas, ed. Alfredo Gadonna and Ester Bianchi, 225 ̶ 54. Venice: Leo S. Olschki Editore.

⸺. 2001. The Iron Statue Monastery “Tiexiangsi”: A Buddhist Nunnery of Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary China. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki.

⸺. 2016. “Dangdai zhongguo fojiao de jielü fuxing yu sengtuan zaisheng” 当代中国佛教的戒律复兴与僧团再生. In Ershi shiji zhongguo fojiao de liangci fuxing 二十世纪中国佛教的两次复兴, ed. Ji Zhe 汲喆 et al., 153 ̶ 63. Fudandaxue chubanshe 复旦大学出版社.

⸺. 2018. “Teaching Tibetan Buddhism in Chinese on behalf of Manjusri: ‘Great Perfection’ and Related Tantric Practices among Han Chinese and Taiwanese Believers in Sertar and Beyond.” In The Hybridity of Buddhism: Contemporary Encounters between Tibetan and Chinese Traditions in Taiwan and the Mainland, 109 ̶ 31. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient.

⸺. 2019. “Transmitting the Precepts in Conformity with the Dharma”: Restoration, Adaptation, and Standardization of Ordination Procedures.” In Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions, 152–70. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Borchert, Thomas. 2010. “The Abbot’s New House: Thinking about How Religion Works among Buddhists and Ethnic Minorities in Southwest China.” Journal of Church and State 52(1): 112 ̶ 37.

Campo, Danièla. 2016. “Minguo shiqi de jielü fuxing chutan” 民国时期的戒律复兴初探. In Ershi shiji zhongguo fojiao de liangci fuxing 二十世纪中国佛教的两次复兴, 137 ̶ 52. Fudandaxue chubanshe 复旦大学出版社. (For English version, see Danièla Campo. 2017. “A different Buddhist Revival: The Promotion of Vinaya in Republican China.” Journal of Global Buddhism 18: 120 ̶ 54.)

⸺. 2019. “Bridging the Gap: Chan and Tiantai Dharma Lineages from Republican to Post-Mao China.” In Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions, 123 ̶ 50. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Cao, Nanlai. 2018. “The Rise of Field Studies in Religious Research in the People’s Republic of China.” The China Review 18 (1): 137 ̶ 63.

Chau, Adam Yuet (ed.). 2011. Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation. New York: Routledge.

Chiu, Tzu-Lung. 2014. “Rethinking the Precept of Not Taking Money in Contemporary Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese Buddhist Nunneries.” Journal of Buddhist Ethnics 21: 9 ̶ 56.

⸺. 2017. “The Practice of Fasting after Midday in Contemporary Chinese Nunneries.” Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies 11: 57 ̶ 89.

Esler, Joshua. 2020. Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese. Mediation and Superscription of the Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Society. Maryland: Lexington Books.

Fisher, Gareth. 2008. “The Spiritual Land Rush: Merit and Modality in New Chinese Buddhist Temple Construction.” The Journal of Asian Studies 67(1): 143 ̶ 70.

⸺. 2011. “Morality books and the regrowth of lay Buddhism in China.” In Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation, ed. Adam Yuet Chau, 53 ̶ 80. New York: Routledge.

⸺. 2012. “Religion as Repertoire: Resourcing the Past in a Beijing Buddhist Temple.” Modern China 38(3): 346 ̶ 76.

⸺. 2014. From Comrades to Bodhisattvas: Moral Dimensions of Lay Buddhist Practice in Contemporary China. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

⸺. 2020. “From Temples to Teahouses: Exploring the Evolution of Lay Buddhism in Post-Mao China.” Review of Religion and Chinese Society 7(1): 34 ̶ 61.

Gildow, Douglas. 2014. “The Chinese Buddhist Ritual Field: Common Public Rituals in PRC Monasteries Today.” Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies 27: 59 ̶ 127.

⸺. 2016. Buddhist Monastic Education: Seminaries, Academia, and the State in Contemporary China. Doctoral dissertation, Princeton University.

⸺. 2020. “Questioning the Revival: Buddhist Monasticism in China since Mao.” Review of Religion and Chinese Society 7(1): 6 ̶ 33.

Goossaert, Vincent. 2002. “Les sciences sociales découvrent le bouddhisme chinois du XXe siècle.ˮ Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 47^e Année, 120: 33 ̶ 45.

Grant, Beata. 2017. “Thirty Years of Dream-Wandering: Zhang Ruzhao (1900 ̶ 1969) and the Making of a Buddhist.” Nan Nü 19(1): 28 ̶ 63.

Huang, Weishan. 2019. “Urban Reconstructing and Temple Agency—a Case Study of the Jing’an Temple.” In Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions, 251 ̶ 70. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Jagou, Fabiennne (ed.). 2018. The Hybridity of Buddhism: Contemporary Encounters between Tibetan and Chinese Traditions in Taiwan and the Mainland. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient.

Ji, Zhe. 2004. “Buddhism and the State: A New Relationship.” China Perspectives 55: 2 ̶ 10.

⸺. 2007. “Mémoire Reconstituée : Les Stratégies mnémoniques dans la Reconstruction d’un Monastère Bouddhique.ˮ Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie, CXXII: 145 ̶ 62.

⸺. 2008a. “Secularizations Religious Reconstructing: Statist Institutionalization of Chinese Buddhism and Its Paradoxes.” In Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation, ed. Mayfair Mei-hui Yang, 233 ̶ 41. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

⸺. 2009. “Jushifojiao yu xiandai jiaoyu” 居士佛教与现代教育. Beijing Daxue Jiaoyu Pinglun 北京大学教育评论 7(3): 39 ̶ 62.

⸺. 2010. “Territoires migratoires et lieux religieux: Cartes des religions des Chinois en Île-de-France.ˮ In Dieu change en ville: religion, espace et immigration, ed. Lucine Endelstein, Sébastien Fath, and Séverine Mathieu, 137 ̶ 57. Paris: L’Harmattan.

⸺. 2011a. “Buddhism in the reform era: a secularized revival?” In Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation, ed. Adam Yuet Chau, 32 ̶ 52. New York: Routledge.

⸺. 2011b. “Religion, jeunesse et modernité: Le camp d’été, nouvelle pratique rituelle du bouddhisme chinois.ˮ Social Compass 58(4): 525 ̶ 39.

⸺. 2012-13. “Chinese Buddhism as a Social Force: Reality and Potential of Thirty Years of Revival.” Chinese Sociological Review 45(2): 8 ̶ 26.

⸺. 2014a. “Jushi Fojiao de shehuixue wenti” 居士佛教的社会学问题. Introduction to the special issue of Zongjiao Shehuixue 宗教社会学 2: 85 ̶ 89.

⸺. 2014b. “Buddhist Groups among Chinese Immigrants in France.” Review of Religion and Chinese Society 1: 212 ̶ 35.

⸺. 2015. “Secularization without Secularism: The Political Religious Configuration of Post-1989 China.” In Atheist Secularism and its Discontents: A Comparative Study of Religion and Communism in Eurasia, ed. Tam T. T. Ngo and Justine B. Quijada, 108 ̶ 19. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

⸺. 2016a. Religion, modernité et temporalité: une sociologie du bouddhisme chan contemporain. Paris: CNRS Editions.

⸺. 2016b. “Buddhist Institutional Innovations” In Modern Chinese Religion II, 1850 ̶ 2015, ed. Vincent Goossaert, Jan Kiely, and John Lagerwey, 731 ̶ 66. Leiden: Brill.

⸺.2016c. “Vers une mondialisation réflexive: les trajectoires et les tendances du bouddhisme chinois transnational.ˮ Diogène 256(4): 107 ̶ 25.

⸺. 2019. “Schooling Dharma Teachers: The Buddhist Academy System and Sangha Education.” In Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions, 171 ̶ 209. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Ji, Zhe, Gareth Fisher, and André Laliberté (eds). 2019. Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Jones, Alison Denton. 2010. A Modern Religion? The State, the people, and the Remaking of Buddhism in Urban China Today. Doctoral dissertation, Cambridge: Harvard University.

⸺. 2011. “Contemporary Han Chinese Involvement in Tibetan Buddhism: A Case Study from Nanjing.” Social Compass 58(4): 540 ̶ 53.

Kang Xiaofei. 2009a. “Rural Women, Old Age, and Temple Work: A Case from Northwester Sichuan.” China Perspectives 80(4): 42 ̶ 52.

⸺. 2009b. “Two Temples, Three Religions, and a Tourist Attraction: Contesting Sacred Space on China’s Ethnic Frontier.” Modern China 35(3): 227 ̶ 55.

⸺. 2016. “Women and the Religious Question in Modern China.” In Modern Chinese Religion II: 1850 ̶ 2015, 489 ̶ 559. London: Brill.

⸺. 2017. “Women, Gender, and Religion in Modern China, 1900s–1950s: An Introduction.” Nan Nü 19(1): 1 ̶ 27.

Kiely, Jan and J. Brooks Jessup (eds). 2016. Recovering Buddhism in Modern China. New York, Columbia University Press.

King, Ursula. 2014. “General Introduction: Gender-Critical Turn in the Study of Religion.” In Gender, Religion and Diversity: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, ed. Ursula King and Tina Beattie, 1 ̶ 12. New York: Continuum.

Kitagawa, Joseph. 1969. “Review of The Practice of Chinese Buddhism by Holmes Welch.” The Journal of Religion 49(3): 310 ̶ 311.

Krause, Carsten (eds). 2020. “When a New Generation Comes up: Buddhist leadership in Contemporary China”, Special Supplement of the Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies.

Laliberté, André. 2003. “‘Love Transcends Borders’ or ‘Blood is Thicker than Water’? The Charity Work of the Compassion Relief Foundation in the People’s Republic of China.” European Journal of East Asian Studies 2(2): 243 ̶ 61.

⸺. 2012. “Buddhist Charities and China’s Social Policy, An Opportunity for Alternate Civility?” Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 57e Année, 158: 95 ̶ 117.

⸺. 2015. “Religious Philanthropy in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong: The Impact of State Institutional Trajectories.” Asian Journal of Social Science 43(4): 435 ̶ 65.

Madsen, Richard. 2007. Democracy’s Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan. San Diego: University of California Press.

McCarthy, Susan. 2019. “Spiritual Technologies and the Politics of Buddhist Charity.” In Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions, 77 ̶ 96. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Merton, Robert K. 1949. “On Sociological Theories of the Middle Range.” In Social Theory and Social Structure, 39 ̶ 53. New York: Simon & Schuster, The Free Press.

Molloy, Stephen. 1980. “Max Weber and the Religions of China: Any Way out of the Maze?” The British Journal of Sociology 31(3): 377 ̶ 400.

Nichols, Brian J. 2017. “Taking Welch and The Practice of Chinese Buddhism into the 21^st century.” Studies in Chinese Religions 3(3): 258 ̶ 80.

⸺. 2019. “Tourist Temple and Places of Practice: Charting Multiple Paths in the Revival of Monasteries.” In Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions, 97 ̶ 120. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Ownby, David, Vincent Goossaert, and Ji Zhe (eds). 2017. Making Saints in Modern China. New York: Oxford University Press.

Qin, Wenjie. 2000. The Buddhist revival in post-Mao China: women reconstruct Buddhism on Mt. Emei. Doctoral dissertation, Cambridge: Harvard University.

Shen, Yang. 2020. Sidestepping secularism: performance and imagination in Buddhist temple-scapes in contemporary China. Doctoral dissertation, Boston University.

Sun, Yanfei. 2011. “The Chinese Buddhist Ecology in Post-Mao China: Contours, Types and Dynamics.” Social Compass 58(4): 498 ̶ 510.

⸺. 2014. “Popular Religion in Zhejiang: Feminization, Bifurcation, and Buddhification.” Modern China 40(5): 455 ̶ 87.

Travagnin, Stefania (ed.). 2016. Religion and Media in China: Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. New York: Routledge.

Travagnin, Stefania. 2017. “Buddhist Education between Tradition, Modernity and Networks: Reconsidering the ‘Revival’ of Education for the Saṅgha in Twentieth-century China.” Studies in Chinese Religions 3(3): 220 ̶ 41.

⸺. 2020. “From Online Buddha Halls to Robot-Monks: New Developments in the Long-Term Interaction between Buddhism, Media, and Technology in Contemporary China.” Review of Religion and Chinese Society 7(1): 120 ̶ 48.

Wank, David L. 2009. “Institutionalizing Modern ‘Religion’ in China’s Buddhism: Political Phases of a Local Revival.” In Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China, ed. Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank, 126 ̶ 50. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Welch, Holmes. 1967. The Practice of Chinese Buddhism, 1900 ̶ 1950. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Weller, Robert P. and Wu Keping. 2017. “On the Boundaries Between Good and Evil: Constructing Multiple Moralities in China.” The Journal of Asian Studies 76(1): 47 ̶ 67.

Wu, Keping. 2016. “The Philanthropic Turn of Religions in Post-Mao China: Bureaucratization, Professionalization, and the Making of a Moral Subject.” Modern China 43(4): 425 ̶ 55.

Wu, Jiang and Tong Daoqin. 2012. “Spatial Analysis of Buddhist Monasteries in Contemporary China.” Working paper, Tucson, University of Arizona, Department of East Asian Studies (Academia.edu: https://arizona.academia.edu/JiangWu, accessed 20 September 2020).

Yang, Fenggang and Wei Dedong. 2005. “The Bailin Buddhist Temple: Thriving under Communism.” In State, Market, and Religions in Chinese Societies, ed. Yang Fenggang and Joseph B. Tamney, 63 ̶ 87. Leiden: Brill.

Zhang, Jia and Ji Zhe. 2018. “Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China: Social Engagements and Political Regulations.” The China Review 18(4): 11 ̶ 39.