Arthur F. Wright (1913–1976)
Autore di Buddhism in Chinese History
Sull'Autore
Opere di Arthur F. Wright
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Wright, Arthur F.
- Nome legale
- Wright, Arthur Frederick
- Data di nascita
- 1913-12-03
- Data di morte
- 1976-08-11
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New London, Connecticut, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Guilford, Connecticut, USA
- Istruzione
- Stanford University
Oxford University
Harvard University - Attività lavorative
- historian
sinologist
academic
editor - Relazioni
- Wright, Mary Clabaugh (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- Yale University
Stanford University
Utenti
Recensioni
Buddhism in Chinese History di Arthur F. Wright
This book should be of great interest to students of Chinese history, of religion, and of cultural interaction. It is a good introduction towards a genuine history of Chinese Buddhism.
Easy to read framework for thinking about its topic in more depth; it doesn't provide that depth, of course. But the framework is valuable.
A collection of translated articles mostly from the 1940s and 1950s. That might not sound too promising, but there are many insights here that are neither esoteric nor outdated. The author nicely portrays the unique aspect of Chinese imperial government: "rule by scholars". Good chapters on Chinese historiography emphasize the dominance of the scholarly perspective in official histories and the inability of western sinologists to bypass this perspective. The later essays deal mostly with specific Chinese philosophers, so they are probably of less interest to the general reader. But this is in any case a very informative supplementary work if you're reading up on Chinese history.… (altro)
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- 10
- Utenti
- 415
- Popolarità
- #58,725
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 12
- ISBN
- 25
- Lingue
- 1