Jimmy Yu is the Sheng Yen Assistant Professor of Chinese Buddhist Studies at Florida State University and a grant committee advisor of the Sheng Yen Education Foundation Grant for Ph.D. Dissertation Research on Modern Chinese Buddhism. He teaches courses in East Asian religious traditions, specializing in Chinese Buddhism and late imperial Chinese cultural history.
In this illuminating study of a vital but long overlooked aspect of Chinese religious life, Jimmy Yu reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, self-inflicted violence was an essential and sanctioned part of Chinese culture. He examines a wide range of practices, including blood writing, filial body-slicing, chastity mutilations and suicides, ritual exposure, and self-immolation, arguing that each practice was public, scripted, and a signal of cultural expectations. Individuals engaged in acts of self-inflicted violence to exercise power and to affect society, by articulating moral values, reinstituting order, forging new social relations, and protecting against the threat of moral ambiguity. Self-inflicted violence was intelligible both to the person doing the act and to those who viewed and interpreted it, regardless of the various religions of the period: Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and other religions. This book is a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship on bodily practices in late imperial China, challenging preconceived ideas about analytic categories of religion, culture, and ritual in the study of Chinese religions.
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评分非常閤我胃口的一本書。符閤史學傢陰險狡詐的內心。作者年輕玩瞭很多年punk,大光頭,紐約藝術學院畢業。大學畢業齣傢十年然後到學術界讀瞭碩博成瞭教授。很勵誌也很有趣的故事,希望作者看到能著手開始寫一本自傳!
评分非常閤我胃口的一本書。符閤史學傢陰險狡詐的內心。作者年輕玩瞭很多年punk,大光頭,紐約藝術學院畢業。大學畢業齣傢十年然後到學術界讀瞭碩博成瞭教授。很勵誌也很有趣的故事,希望作者看到能著手開始寫一本自傳!
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