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Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries (review)

Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries (review) Reviews 85 Jacques Gernet. Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries. Translated by Franciscus Verellen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. xvii, 441 pp. Hardcover $42.50, ISBN 0­231­07380­1. Paperback $18.50, ISBN 0­231­11411­7. Les aspects économiques du bouddhisme dans la société chinoise du Ve au Xe siècle was first published in Saigon in 1956. Since then it has been reprinted several times, and indeed it helped shape the field of medieval Chinese studies. Its author, Jacques Gernet, has gone on to a long and world-renowned career as a historian of China. In 1995, Columbia University Press reissued this work in an English translation by Franciscus Verellen (with only slightly updated notes and a supplemental bibliography). There is no doubt that in the 1950s this book was of ground-breaking and seminal importance. The question, however, is whether this study, or perhaps any work of historical scholarship, is worth republishing some forty years later. 86 China Review International: Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2000 The happy answer in this case is yes. First of all, language study occupies a great deal of time for serious students of Chinese history, and in the scramble to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries (review)

Hardy, Grant.
China Review International , Volume 7 (1) – Mar 1, 2000
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Reviews 85 Jacques Gernet. Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries. Translated by Franciscus Verellen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. xvii, 441 pp. Hardcover $42.50, ISBN 0­231­07380­1. Paperback $18.50, ISBN 0­231­11411­7. Les aspects économiques du bouddhisme dans la société chinoise du Ve au Xe siècle was first published in Saigon in 1956. Since then it has been reprinted several times, and indeed it helped shape the field of medieval Chinese studies. Its author, Jacques Gernet, has gone on to a long and world-renowned career as a historian of China. In 1995, Columbia University Press reissued this work in an English translation by Franciscus Verellen (with only slightly updated notes and a supplemental bibliography). There is no doubt that in the 1950s this book was of ground-breaking and seminal importance. The question, however, is whether this study, or perhaps any work of historical scholarship, is worth republishing some forty years later. 86 China Review International: Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2000 The happy answer in this case is yes. First of all, language study occupies a great deal of time for serious students of Chinese history, and in the scramble to

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