I forgot to announce the talk I just gave at OSU last Friday.
Reading Religion as Event History: Chinese Monks, the Pirate
King, and Japanese Shoguns in Seventeenth-century East Asia
Presented by Jiang Wu, associate professor, Department of East Asian Studies, the University of Arizona (Tucson)
Abstract: Situated at the margin of East Asian political
history, religion rarely shaped the course of history as significant events. However,
when religion did intersect with the secular power, it is difficult for
scholars to fully understand its meaning. In this talk, Dr. Jiang Wu examines
the historical events leading to the 1661 founding of Manpukuji 萬福寺in
Japan by the Chinese Zen master Yinyuan Longqi 隱元隆琦(1592–1673), whose
life was involved with Zheng Chenggong’s 鄭成功resistance movement in
Southeast China and the shogunal politics in early Edo Japan. In addition, he
will reflect upon the methodological issues for interpreting religious events
in East Asian history.
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