Fear, Heterodoxy, and Crime in Traditional 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