A Brief Introduction to Famous Chinese Academic Works. Volume on Religion

Author: Chen Shiqiang, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 1997-04-01
Features: Preface to the Publication
Chinese academic classics are the brilliant treasures of Chinese culture, vast and profound, with a long history. They are the crystallization of the knowledge and wisdom of the Chinese people. To promote the culture of our motherland and provide convenience for the descendants of Yan and Huang and foreign friends to study and research Chinese classics, we have organized experts to compile the "Outline of Chinese Academic Classics" series of large-scale books. This series includes approximately 3,000 famous academic works (articles) from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the modern era (up to 1949), divided into volumes such as literature, art, linguistics and writing, history, philosophy, religion, classics, economics, political law, education, science and technology, etc. Each volume is further divided into subcategories. The content of the descriptions includes: book title (alternative names, abbreviations); main text; editions (selecting influential and common editions); author (name, style name, birth and death years, place of origin, major life experiences and theories, writings, biographical materials); writing process and publication date; general content (overall summary, prefaces and postfaces, chapter headings, key features); academic influence; research status, etc. After all volumes are completed, additional supplements will be made to make it a large-scale reference book similar to the "General Outline of the Siku Quanshu." Fudan University Press, October 1992
This book is an outline of academic classics on religion in Chinese history. The entire book is divided into five categories: Buddhist Edition, Taoist Edition, Christian Edition, Islamic Edition, and Others, with a total of 305 ancient and modern related classics. It includes important and influential series, encyclopedias, historical records, collections, treatises, annotations, travelogues, geographical records, genealogies, miscellaneous records, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc. The content covers the doctrines, practices, history, schools, figures, events, regulations, rituals, classics, terminology, temples and monasteries, churches and cathedrals, sacred and historical sites of each religion, as well as the religious laws and decrees of the court, the relationships between different religions, and the exchange of Chinese and foreign religious cultures. It provides a wealth of valuable materials for the study of the history of Chinese Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity and Catholicism, and Islamic history.