Religious publishing and print culture in modern China : 1800-2012 / / edited by Philip Clart and Gregory Adam Scott

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788813703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Germany : , : De Gruyter, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-5015-0019-8; 1-61451-298-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (356 p.)
• Collana: Religion and Society, , 1437-5370 ; ; Volume 58
• Disciplina: 070.50951
• Soggetti: Religious literature, Chinese - Publishing; China Religion
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Print Culture and Religion in Chinese History -- Chapter One: The Colportage of the Protestant Bible in Late Qing China: The Example of the British and Foreign Bible Society -- Chapter Two: Publishing Prophecy: A Century of Adventist Print Culture in China -- Chapter Three: Navigating the Sea of Scriptures: The Buddhist Studies Collectanea, 1918–1923 -- Chapter Four: Printing and Circulating “Precious Scrolls” in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai and its Vicinity: Toward an Assessment of Multifunctionality of the Genre -- Chapter Five: The Xiantiandao and Publishing in the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Area from the Late Qing to the 1930's: The Case of the Morality Book Publisher Wenzaizi -- Chapter Six: Morality Book Publishing and Popular Religion in Modern China: A Discussion Centered on Morality Book Publishers in Shanghai -- Chapter Seven: Illuminating Goodness – Some Preliminary Considerations of Religious Publishing in Modern C -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Scholarly interest in print culture and in the study of religion in modern China has increased in recent years, propelled by maturing approaches to the study of cultural history and by a growing recognition that both were important elements of China's recent past. The influence of China ; in the contemporary world continues to expand, and with it has come an urgent need to understand the processes by which its modern history was made. Issues of religious freedom and of religion's influence on the public sphere continue to be contentious but important subjects of scholarly work, and the role of print and textual media has not dimmed with the advent of electronic communication. This book, Religious Publishing and Print Culture in Modern China 1800-2012, speaks to these contemporary and historical issues by bringing to light the important and abiding connections between religious development and modern print culture in China. Bringing together these two subjects has a great deal of potential for producing insights that will appeal to scholars working in a range of fields, from media studies to social historians. Each chapter demonstrates how focusing on the role of publishing among religious groups in modern China generates new insights and raises new questions. They examine how religious actors understood the role of printed texts in religion, dealt with issues of translation and exegesis, produced print media that heralded social and ideological changes, and expressed new self-understandings in their published works. They also address the impact of new technologies, such as mechanized movable type and lithographic presses, in the production and meaning of religious texts. Finally, the chapters identify where religious print culture crossed confessional lines, connecting religious traditions through links of shared textual genres, commercial publishing companies, and the contributions of individual editors and authors. This book thus demonstrates how, in embracing modern print media and building upon their longstanding traditional print cultures, Christian, Buddhist, Daoist, and popular religious groups were developed and defined in modern China. While the chapter authors are specialists in religious traditions, they have made use of recent studies into publishing and print culture, and like many of the subjects of their research, are able to make connections across religious boundaries and link together seemingly discrete traditions.

Real Methods in Complex and CR Geometry : Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Martina Franca, Italy, June 30 - July 6, 2002 / / by Marco Abate, John Erik Fornaess, Xiaojun Huang, Jean-Pierre Rosay, Alexander Tumanov ; edited by Dmitri Zaitsev, Giuseppe Zampieri

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910144618303321
• Autore: Abate Marco
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2004
• ISBN: 3-540-44487-4
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2004.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (IX, 219 p.)
• Collana: C.I.M.E. Foundation Subseries ; ; 1848
• Disciplina: 515.946
• Soggetti: Functions of complex variables; Several Complex Variables and Analytic Spaces
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- M. Abate: Angular Derivatives in Several Complex Variables -- J.E. Fornaess: Real Methods in Complex Dynamics -- X. Huang: Local Equivalence Problems for Real Submanifolds in Complex Spaces -- J.-P. Rosay: Introduction to a General Theory of Boundary Values -- A. Tumanov: Extremal Discs and the Geometry of CR Manifolds.
• Sommario/riassunto: The geometry of real submanifolds in complex manifolds and the analysis of their mappings belong to the most advanced streams of contemporary Mathematics. In this area converge the techniques of various and sophisticated mathematical fields such as P.D.E.'s, boundary value problems, induced equations, analytic discs in symplectic spaces, complex dynamics. For the variety of themes and the surprisingly good interplaying of different research tools, these problems attracted the attention of some among the best mathematicians of these latest two decades. They also entered as a refined content of an advanced education. In this sense the five lectures of this volume provide an excellent cultural background while giving very deep insights of current research activity.