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"Believing" in Song Dynasty China

The Kansas University Center for East Asian Studies hosts this discussion of spirituality and religion in Song Dynasty China

When:
March 6, 2014 4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Robert Hymes, Professor of Chinese History, Columbia University

Robert Hymes is the author of Statesmen & Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-chou, Chiang-hsi, in Northern & Southern Sung (Cambridge, 1987); Ordering the World: Approaches to State & Society in Sung Dynasty China (Berkeley, 1993, co-edited with Conrad Schirokauer); and Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China. Both Statesmen and Gentlemen and Way and Byway won the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for the best book on pre-1900 China in their years of publication