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Women, Buddhism and Modernity in China, 1900-1950

Elise Anne DeVido [+–]
National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Elise Anne DeVido received her doctorate in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University. She has taught East Asian history at Connecticut College, St. Bonaventure University, Duke University, and Duke Kunshan University. In Taiwan, she served as Secretary-General of the Taipei Ricci Institute and taught global history at National Chengchi University and National Taiwan Normal University. Her primary research interests are gender issues in modern transnational Buddhism, and the history of modern Vietnamese Buddhism. In addition to her monograph entitled Taiwan’s Buddhist Nuns (SUNY Press, 2010) she has published articles on Buddhist women in China and in Vietnam; on the genealogy of Engaged Buddhism; and on the life and work of Thích Nhất Hạnh. In Fall 2018 she will be the Sheng Yen Foundation Visiting Fellow in Chinese Buddhism at National Chengchi University in Taiwan.

Recent years have seen fine studies of women in Republican-era China (1911-1949) as well as works about Buddhism in the same time-period, however few such works focus on the intersections of “women” and “Buddhism.” This book explores what “religion,” “Buddhism,” and “modern” meant to women of different backgrounds in those decades though analysis of a wide variety of materials including Buddhist associations and schools, legal cases, representations of Buddhist women in the Chinese popular press, opera, and cinema, fiction and non-fiction by Buddhist women, accounts by foreign writers and photographers, and new roles for and representations of Buddhist women during the Second World War and Civil War, 1945-1950. Throughout, Chinese Buddhist women voiced their views on personal and national enlightenment, women’s rights, social engagement, and questions of transcendence and liberation. Here, some comparison with Korean Buddhist women, Japanese women writers, and American Catholic nuns is instructive, since such debates also took place within these three groups. The overarching goal of the book is to interrogate the reformationist discourse of the Chinese Buddhist modernization project: What did various Buddhist women stand to gain or lose in terms of community and agency, integral with their interpretations of Buddhist cosmology and their spaces of devotion?

ISBN-13 (Hardback)
9781781798362
Price (Hardback)
£75.00 / $100.00
ISBN (eBook)
9781781798379
Publication
01/10/2024
Pages
224
Size
234 x 156mm
Readership
scholars
Illustration
maps and figures

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