Chinese Traditional Religion and Temples in North America,1849-1920: California
Chinese Traditional Religion and Temples in North America,1849-1920: California
The authors' qualifications are as follows. They received their Ph.D.'s from the Universities of London and Pennsylvania. They have visited most of the relevant sites and collections, discussed the subject with numerous Chinese and non-Chinese local historians, and-due to the recent availability of searchable digitized archives-been able to consult many more early newspapers and other primary sources than previous researchers. They have also had the advantages of decent educations in Chinese and other languages, familiarity with the specialized language of Chinese religious texts and, in the senior author's case, an old-fashioned Daoist/Buddhist upbringing in Hong Kong. Our objectives are twofold. By cataloguing as many early temples as possible, we want to assist in preserving what remains of them, often no more than a few ritual objects or a hand-written text or two in the storerooms of museums. And by providing extensive context for those remains, we hope to enable a modern audience to hear more clearly the voices of nineteenth century Chinese immigrants, telling us how they cultivated their faith, what it meant to them, and how it fitted into their daily lives.
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The authors' qualifications are as follows. They received their Ph.D.'s from the Universities of London and Pennsylvania. They have visited most of the relevant sites and collections, discussed the subject with numerous Chinese and non-Chinese local historians, and-due to the recent availability of searchable digitized archives-been able to consult many more early newspapers and other primary sources than previous researchers. They have also had the advantages of decent educations in Chinese and other languages, familiarity with the specialized language of Chinese religious texts and, in the senior author's case, an old-fashioned Daoist/Buddhist upbringing in Hong Kong. Our objectives are twofold. By cataloguing as many early temples as possible, we want to assist in preserving what remains of them, often no more than a few ritual objects or a hand-written text or two in the storerooms of museums. And by providing extensive context for those remains, we hope to enable a modern audience to hear more clearly the voices of nineteenth century Chinese immigrants, telling us how they cultivated their faith, what it meant to them, and how it fitted into their daily lives.
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