Nomads on pilgrimage : : Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940 / / by Isabelle Charleux.

Nomads on Pilgrimage: Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940 is a social history of the Mongols’ pilgrimages to Wutaishan in late imperial and Republican times. In this period of economic crisis and rise of nationalism and anticlericalism in Mongolia and China, this great Buddhist mountain of China...

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Superior document:Brill's Inner Asian Library, Volume 33
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Brill's Inner Asian library ; Volume 33.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 472 pages).
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Pilgrimage Sites of the Mongols: An Overview
  • 2 The Invention of Wutaishan
  • 3 Political and Clerical Promotion of Wutaishan in the Qing and Republican Periods
  • 4 The Mongol Imaginaire of Wutaishan
  • 5 The Mongol Pilgrims: Sociological and Economic Aspects
  • 6 The Mongols on Wutaishan: Interactions and Encounters
  • 7 Mongolized Wutaishan and Mongol Wutaishans: Appropriation and Substitution
  • Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Bibliography
  • Index.