The Modern Spirit of Asia

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• The Buddhist Association that manages Nanputuo was revived in 1979. From the outside it looks like a perfect vehicle of state control and indeed in my interviews with monks and nuns they showed a greater awareness of Marxist-Leninist philosophy than of Buddhist philosophy. Nevertheless, as David Wank and Yoshiko Ashiwa show, the association constantly negotiates its space for maneuver with the local and national Religious Affairs Bureau. It is primarily the management of economic resources, which are considerable, with the growth of lay support and tourism that is at stake. As such the story of religious associations is probably not much different from that of other cultural institutions in the Chinese bureaucratic state. (查看原文)

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• Both Mao and Gandhi stand in an ancient, Western tradition. Certainly, they also are heirs to more positive ways of thinking about material life in their utopian views of better forms of productivity and exchange that would enable the formation of morally superior social life. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism was imbued with nostalgia for primitive communism and, as such, inherited by Mao, who extolled the virtues of peasant life. Chinese communists, while having a materialist ideology, rejected capitalist consumer culture as illusiona1y or indeed fetishistic in the Marxian sense. S hanghai's prewar cosmopolitan modernity, for instance, was seen as both not authentically Chinese and immoral. Therefore it was violently repressed after the communist takeover in the 1 950s. Striking i... (查看原文)

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