1898: The beginning of the end for Chinese religion?

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A study aims to identify the social and intellectual events in China that made the process of temple destruction possible in its early phases, before the 1911 Republican revolution. It focuses on facts, texts, and ideas that predate the fierce anti-superstition campaigns led by the Kuomintang between 1926 and 1937, to show that much of the contents of these campaigns already existed during the period between 1898 and 1911.

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Building Shanghai, one page at a time: the aesthetics of installment fiction at the turn of the century

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An overview is presented on Chinese fiction writing and publication during the Ch'ing (Qing) dynasty's final two decades, at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The popularity of the installment or serial fiction format can be attributed to its spatial and temporal consistency of content, the psychological addiction created by interruption of the narrative line, and the complexity of subjects.

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The image of an orphan: Cambodian narrative sites for Buddhist ethical reflection

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The article examines moral education under Buddhism, and concludes that correct ethical orientation consists of the acknowledgement of the interconnectedness between self and others. This perspective is applied to a colonial Cambodian vernacular text that addresses social relationships and normative values.

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