Fear, Heterodoxy, and Crime in Traditional China: Toward an Anthropological History of Emotion and Its Social Management (Sinica Leidensia, 165)

This multi-contributor volume examines the evolving relationship between fear, heterodoxy and crime in traditional China. It throws light on how these three variously interwoven elements shaped local policies and people's perceptions of the religious, ethnic, and cultural "other." Authors depart from the assumption that "otherness" is constructed, stereotyped and formalized within the moral, political and legal institutions of Chinese society. The capacity of their findings to address questions about the emotional dimension of mass mobilization, the socio-political implications of heterodoxy, and attributions of crime is the result of integrating multiple sources of knowledge from history, religious studies and social science. Contributors are Ágnes Birtalan, Ayumu Doi, Fabian Graham, Hung Tak Wai, Jing Li, Hang Lin, Tommaso Previato, and Noriko Unno. Contents Front Cover 1 Contents 6 Preface 8 Acknowledgements 14 Figures 16 Notes on Contributors 17 Conventions 20 Introduction 22 Part 1 Gender and Forms of Rule in Inner Asian Cultures and Religions 56 Chapter 1 Othering the Khitans: Fear, Gender, and Civilization in Song-Liao Relations 58 Chapter 2 Motifs of Fear in Biographical Narratives of Rivalry between Mongolian Lamas and Shamans, and Its Echoes in Legal Codes (17th and 18th Centuries) 92 Part 2 State Policies, Agency and Representations of Abrahamic Traditions 130 Chapter 3 Proactive Bureaucrats and Their Fears: The Controversy over Chinese Muslims and Christians in the Yongzheng Court 132 Chapter 4 Mirror of Desire or Fear? Chinese Emperors in Muslim Folklore and Modern Historiography 184 Chapter 5 Jihad, Emotion and the State in Chinese Islam: From the Martyrologies of Neo-Sufi Sectarians to the Glorious Death of Revolutionary Heroes 214 Chapter 6 A Controversial Case of Iconoclasm and Temple Confiscation: The Impact of Zhong Rongguang and Chen Jinghua’s Religious Policies on 1910s Canton 254 Part 3 Emic Approaches to Chinese Buddhism and Folk Beliefs 280 Chapter 7 Heresy, Discourse and Emotionality: A Sociological Perspective on Pan Lei’s Persecution of Chan Master Shilian Dashan 282 Chapter 8 Healing the Past, Shaping the Future: The Ontology of Emotion in the Lingji Ritual Tradition 320 Index 344 Back Cover 352 "This multi-contributor volume examines the evolving relationship between fear, heterodoxy and crime in traditional China. It throws light on how these three variously interwoven elements shaped local policies and people's perceptions of the religious, ethnic, and cultural "other." Authors depart from the assumption that "otherness" is constructed, stereotyped and formalized within the moral, political and legal institutions of Chinese society. The capacity of their findings to address questions about the emotional dimension of mass mobilization, the socio-political implications of heterodoxy, and attributions of crime is the result of integrating multiple sources of knowledge from history, religious studies and social science. Contributors are Ágnes Birtalan, Ayumu Doi, Fabian Graham, Hung Tak Wai, Jing Li, Hang Lin, Tommaso Previato, and Noriko Unno"-- Provided by publisher