Resource List for the Study of Buddhism in China, 1850-1949

This is a draft list of academic resources useful for the study of Buddhism in China in the modern period, between about 1850 and 1949. I am limiting its content to:

• secondary sources in European languages;

• recent Chinese-language scholarship; and

• reprint collections of primary materials

simply because to include primary sources would mean a list of thousands of items or more.

If any listed citations are incorrect or you have a suggestion for an additional resource, please contact me at gregory.scott@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Gregory Adam Scott
Lecturer in Chinese Culture and History, University of Manchester

Aviv, Eyal. “Differentiating the Pearl From the Fish Eye: Ouyang Jingwu (1871-1943) and the Revival of Scholastic Buddhism.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 2008.

Bianchi, Ester. “Subtle erudition and compassionate devotion: Longlian (1909-2006), the most outstanding bhiksuni in modern China,” In Making Saints in Modern China, edited by D. Ownby, V. Goossaert, and Ji Zhe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016-2017): 272-311.

Bingenheimer, Marcus. Der Mönchsgelehrte Yinshun (*1906) und seine Bedeutung für den Chinesisch-Taiwanischen Buddhismus im 20. Jahrhundert. Heidelberg: Edition Forum, Würzburger Sinologische Schriften, 2004.

Bingenheimer, Marcus. "Some Remarks on the Usage of Renjian Fojiao 人間佛教 and the Contribution of Venerable Yinshun to Chinese Buddhist Modernism." In Development and Practice of Humanitarian Buddhism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Mutsu Hsu, Jinhua Chen, and Lori Meeks (Hua-lien (Taiwan): Tzuchi University Press, 2007): 141-161.

Bingenheimer, Marcus. "Writing history of Buddhist thought in the 20th century – Yinshun (1906-2005) in the context of Chinese Buddhist Historiography." Journal of Global Buddhism 10 (2009): 255-290. HTML version and PDF version at the Journal of Global Buddhism website.

Birnbaum, Raoul. “Buddhist China at the Century's Turn.” The China Quarterly, no. 174 (June, 2003): 428-450.

Birnbaum, Raoul. “The Deathbed Image of Master Hongyi.” In The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations, edited by Bryan J. Cuevas and Jacqueline I. Stone (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007): 175-207.

Campo, Daniela. La construction de la sainteté dans la Chine moderne: la vie du maître bouddhiste Xuyun. Paris: Société d'Édition Les Belles Lettres, 2013.

Carter, James. Heart of Buddha, Heart of China: The Life of Tanxu, a Twentieth-Century Monk. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Chu, William P. “A Buddha-Shaped Hole: Yinshun's 印順 (1906-2005) Critical Buddhology and the Theological Crisis in Modern Chinese Buddhism.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006.

Cressy, Earl Herbert, “A Study in Indigenous Religions.” In Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry Fact-Finders' Reports: China; Volume V, Supplementary Series, Part Two, edited by Orville A. Petty (New York; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1933): 655-717.

Goossaert, Vincent. “1898: The Beginning of the End for Chinese Religion?” The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 65, no. 2 (May, 2006): 307-336

Goossaert, Vincent and David A. Palmer. The Religious Question in Modern China. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Goldfuss, Gabriele. Vers un bouddhisme du XXe siècle. Yang Wenhui (1837-1911), réformateur laïque et imprimeur. Paris: Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, 2001.

Hammerstrom, Erik J. “Buddhists Discuss Science in Modern China (1895-1949).” Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 2010.

Hammerstrom, Erik J. The Science of Chinese Buddhism: Early Twentieth-Century Engagements. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.

Huang Xia’nian 黃夏年, ed. Minguo Fojiao qikan wenxian jicheng 民國佛教期刊文獻集成, 209 vols. Beijing: Quanguo tushuguan, 2006.

Huang Xia’nian 黃夏年, ed. Minguo Fojiao qikan wenxian jicheng bubian 民國佛教期刊文獻集成．補編, 83 vols. Beijing: Zhongguo shudian, 2008.

Ip, Hung-yok. “Buddhism, Literature, and Chinese Modernity: Su Manshu's Imaginings of Love (1911-1916).” In Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm: In Search of Chinese Modernity, edited by Kai-qing Chow et al (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008): 229-251.

Jessup, J. Brooks. “The Householder Elite: Buddhist Activism in Shanghai, 1920-1956.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2010.

Ji Zhe 汲喆, Tian Shuijing 田水晶, and Wang Qiyuan 王启元, eds. Ershi shiji Zhongguo Fojiao de liangci fuxing 二十世纪中国佛教的两次复兴. Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2016.

Luo Cheng 羅琤. Jinling kejing chu yanjiu 金陵刻經處研究 (A Study of the Jinling Scriptural Press.) Shanghai: Shanghai shehui kexue yuan chuban she, 2010.

Kiely, Jan. “Spreading the Dharma with the Mechanized Press: New Buddhist Print Cultures in the Modern Chinese Print Revolution, 1866-1949.” In From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition, 1800-2008, edited by Christopher Reed and Cynthia Brokaw (Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2010): 185-210.

Nedostup, Rebecca. Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2010.

Pittman, Don A. Toward a Modern Chinese Buddhism: Taixu's Reforms. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001.

Prip-Møller, Johannes. Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: Their Plan and Its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1967 [Copenhagen: G.E.C., 1937].

Ritzinger, Justin. Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Scott, Gregory Adam. “The Dharma Through a Glass Darkly: On the Study of Modern Chinese Buddhism through Protestant Missionary Sources 彷彿對著鏡子觀看的佛法：藉由基督教傳教士的史料研究現代中國佛教.” Shengyan yanjiu 聖嚴研究 (Sheng Yen Studies), Vol. 2 (July, 2011): 47-73.

Scott, Gregory Adam. “The Buddhist Nationalism of Dai Jitao 戴季陶,” Journal of Chinese Religions, No. 39 (2011): 55-81.

Scott, Gregory Adam. “Timothy Richard, World Religion, and Reading Christianity in Buddhist Garb.” Social Sciences and Missions 25 (2012): 53-75.

Scott, Gregory Adam. “Chinese Buddhist Publishing and Print Culture, 1900-1950”, in Oxford Bibliographies in Buddhism, edited by Richard Payne. New York: Oxford University Press, March 2013.

Scott, Gregory Adam. “Navigating the Sea of Scriptures: The Buddhist Studies Collectanea, 1918–1923.” In Religious Publishing and Print Culture in Modern China, 1800-2012, edited by Philip Clart and Gregory Adam Scott (Boston; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015)

Scott, Gregory Adam. “平衡功德與利益— 上海佛學書局股份有限公司的經歷” [Balancing Merit and Profit: The Case of the Shanghai Buddhist Books Company, Limited.] 刊於《改變中國宗教的五十年，1898-1948》[1898-1948: Fifty Years that Changed Chinese Religion], 康豹(Paul R. Katz), 高萬桑(Vincent Goossaert)主編. Taipei: Academia Sinica, November 2015.

Scott, Gregory Adam. “Revolution of Ink: Chinese Buddhist Periodicals in the Early Republic,” in Recovering Buddhism in Modern China, edited by Jan Kiely and J. Brooks Jessup (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016), pp. 111-140.

Scott, Gregory Adam. “Absolutely Not a Business: Chinese Buddhist Scriptural Presses and Distributors, 1860s – 1930s,” in KODEX – Jahrbuch der IBG [Codex: Yearbook of the International Society for Book Science], Vol. 6 (2016): pp. 67-82.

Tarocco, Francesca. The Cultural Practices of Modern Chinese Buddhism. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Tien, Po-yao. “A Modern Buddhist Monk-reformer in China: The Life and Thought of Yin-shun.” Ph.D. Dissertation, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1995.

Tian Qi 田奇, ed. Minguo shiqi Fojiao ziliao huibian 民國時期佛教資料匯編 (Collection of Materials on Republican-era Buddhism.) 16 Vols. Beijing: Guojia tushuguan chubanshe, 2010.

Tuttle, Gray. “Translating Buddhism from Tibetan to Chinese in Early 20th Century China (1931–1951).” In Buddhism Between China and Tibet, ed. Matthew Kapstein (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2009), 241–279.

Welch, Holmes. The Practice of Chinese Buddhism: 1900 - 1950. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967.

Welch, Holmes. The Buddhist Revival in China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968.

Welch, Holmes. Buddhism Under Mao. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.

Yang Zhifeng 楊之峰. “Zhongguo jindai de baina ben dazang jing” 中國近代的百衲本大藏經 (The Collected-edition Canonical Scriptures of Modern China.) Tushuguan gongzuo yu yanjiu 圖書館工作與研究, No. 163 (2009): 78-80.

Yang Zhifeng 楊之峰. “Xu Wenwei yu Beijing kejingchu” 徐文霨與北京刻經處 (Xu Wenwei and the Beijing Scriptural Press.) Tushuguan yanjiu yu gongzuo 圖書館研究與工作, no. 122 (2010): 69-71.

Yinshun 印順. Taixu dashi nianpu 太虛大師年譜 (Chronology of Master Taixu.) Xinzhu: Fuyan jingshe liutong, 1950; Taipei: Tianhua chuban shiye, 1978.

Yu Lingbo 于凌波. Zhongguo jinxiandai Fojiao renwu zhi 中國近現代佛教人物志 (Biographies of Figures in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Buddhism.) Beijing: Zongjiao wenhua chubanshe, 1995.

Yu Lingbo 于凌波. Minguo gaoseng zhuan chubian 民國高僧傳初編 (Initial Volume of Biographies of Eminent Monks in the Republican Era.) Xindian, Taipei county: Yuanming chubanshe, 1998.

Yu Lingbo 于凌波, ed. Xiandai Fojiao renwu cidian 現代佛教人物辭典 (Dictionary of Persons in Modern Buddhism.) Sanchong: Foguang, 2004.