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Dreaming and Self-search during the Ming Collapse: The Xue Xiemeng Biji, 1642-1646

Dreaming and Self-search during the Ming Collapse: The Xue Xiemeng Biji, 1642-1646 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/008254307X211124 T’oung Pao 93 (2007) 159-192 www.brill.nl/tp T ’ O U N G PA O Dreaming and Self-search during the Ming Collapse: e Xue Xiemeng Biji , 1642-1646 Lynn A. Struve * Indiana University, Bloomington Keywords Ming Dynasty, Buddhism, Daoism, diary, Xue Cai When the Ming dynasty fell in mid-seventeenth-century China, literati and scholar-officials took the tonsure and became monks on a scale unprecedented in any previous dynastic transition. 1 Despairing at the state of the world and not wishing to shave off most of their hair, cultivate the queue, or alter the cut of their robes in symbolic submission to the conquering “barbarian” Manchu-Qing regime, they opted to avoid political confrontation and perhaps achieve some peace of mind by entering clerical Buddhism. Besides, having often lost their lands, homes, and families, many Ming loyalists had few options but to reside in abbeys and monasteries—or so the common view goes. 2 *) My thanks to Prof. Stephen Bokenkamp and to an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on drafts of this article. 1) Liao Zhaoheng ኣፌۮ , “Mingmo Qingchu yimin tao Chan zhi feng yanjiu” ࣔأ堚 ॣᙊاಲ᛽հଅઔߒ (Master’s thesis, National Taiwan University, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png T'oung Pao Brill

Dreaming and Self-search during the Ming Collapse: The Xue Xiemeng Biji, 1642-1646

Struve, Lynn
T'oung Pao , Volume 93 (1): 159 – Jan 1, 2007
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/008254307X211124 T’oung Pao 93 (2007) 159-192 www.brill.nl/tp T ’ O U N G PA O Dreaming and Self-search during the Ming Collapse: e Xue Xiemeng Biji , 1642-1646 Lynn A. Struve * Indiana University, Bloomington Keywords Ming Dynasty, Buddhism, Daoism, diary, Xue Cai When the Ming dynasty fell in mid-seventeenth-century China, literati and scholar-officials took the tonsure and became monks on a scale unprecedented in any previous dynastic transition. 1 Despairing at the state of the world and not wishing to shave off most of their hair, cultivate the queue, or alter the cut of their robes in symbolic submission to the conquering “barbarian” Manchu-Qing regime, they opted to avoid political confrontation and perhaps achieve some peace of mind by entering clerical Buddhism. Besides, having often lost their lands, homes, and families, many Ming loyalists had few options but to reside in abbeys and monasteries—or so the common view goes. 2 *) My thanks to Prof. Stephen Bokenkamp and to an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on drafts of this article. 1) Liao Zhaoheng ኣፌۮ , “Mingmo Qingchu yimin tao Chan zhi feng yanjiu” ࣔأ堚 ॣᙊاಲ᛽հଅઔߒ (Master’s thesis, National Taiwan University,

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Keywords: MING DYNASTY; XUE CAI; DAOISM; BUDDHISM; DIARY

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