Thomas David Dubois

Empire and the Meaning of Religion in Northeast Asia

Manchuria 1900-1945

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reveals how religion shaped ideas and propelled the lightning-quick development of Manchuria at the start of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 158mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781107166400
• ISBN-10: 1107166403
• Artikelnr.: 47446461

Autorenporträt

Thomas David DuBois is a leading scholar of religion in East Asian history, and is the author of Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia (Cambridge, 2011) and Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China (2005). His work has been published in Arabic, Chinese and Russian translation.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Foundations of religion in society in Manchuria
2. From the blood of the martyrs
3. The mind of empire
4. Piety in print
5. The laws of men
6. A charitable view
7. Manchukuo's filial sons
8. May God bless Manchukuo
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography.