Beata Grant
Biographic Data
| ID | 5178156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beata Grant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beata |
| FAMILY NAME | Grant |
| SIGNATURE | GRANT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature
Eminent Nuns
Although Buddhist nuns have been a continuous presence in Chinese culture since early medieval times and the subject of numerous scholarly studies, this book is one of the first not only to provide a detailed view of their activities at one particular moment in time (the seventeenth century), but also to be based largely on the writings and self-representations of Buddhist nuns themselves. This perspective is made possible by the preservation of …
Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism
In a demonstration of the value of interdisciplinary, culture-based approaches, this collection of essays on "later" Chinese Buddhism takes us beyond the bedrock subjects of traditional Buddhist historiography--scriptures and commentaries, sectarian developments, lives of notable monks--to examine a wide range of extracanonical materials that illuminate cultural manifestations of Buddhism from the Song dynasty (960-1279) through the modern period…
Thirty Years of Dream-Wandering
Zhang Ruzhao (1900-69), also known as Zhang Shenghui, was ordained as a Buddhist nun, with the title Tiantai Master Benkong. In early life, Zhang established a reputation as a poet, and was actively engaged in many of the political and feminist movements of the 1920s. Disillusioned both politically and personally, she turned to Buddhism and reinvented herself as China’s premier female lay Buddhist scholar, writer and educator during the 1930s and…
Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers, written by N. Harry Rothschild , 2015
Women and Gender in the Discourse Records of Seventeenth-Century Sichuanese Chan Masters Poshan Haiming and Tiebi Huiji
This article explores the textual presence of nuns and laywomen in the official discourse records of two of the most well-known and influential seventeenth-century Chan Buddhist masters active in mid-seventeenth-century Sichuan: Tiebi Huiji (1603–68) and Poshan Haiming (1597–1666). Close readings of the poems, sermons, and occasional letters composed to or about their female monastic disciples and lay followers shed light on the range of attitude…
Transformative Journeys
Reviewed by: Transformative Journeys: Travel and Culture in Song China by Cong Ellen Zhang Beata Grant Cong Ellen Zhang . Transformative Journeys: Travel and Culture in Song China. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011. Pp. xiv + 301. $49.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0824833992. Transformative Journeys represents a fine addition to the growing number of English-language studies on Song literati life and culture. As the author readily acknowledges, …
Escape from Blood Pond Hell
These translations of The Precious Scroll of the Three Lives of Mulian and Woman Huang Recites the Diamond Sutra are late-nineteenth-century examples of baojuan (literally, "precious scrolls"), a Chinese folk genre featuring alternating verse and prose that was used by monks to illustrate religious precepts for lay listeners. They represent only two of numerous versions, composed in a variety of genres, of these legends, which were once popular a…
The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
Eminent Nuns
The seventeenth century is generally acknowledged as one of the most politically tumultuous but culturally creative periods of late imperial Chinese history. Only recently beginning to be explored are such seventeenth-century religious phenomena as “the reinvention” of Chan Buddhism—a concerted effort to revive what were believed to be the traditional teachings, texts, and practices of “classical” Chan. And, until now, the role played by women in…
Da Zhangfu
Nan Nü 10 (2008) 177-211 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/138768008X368200 www.brill.nl/nanu N A N N Ü da zhangfu: The Gendered rhetoric of Heroism and equality in Seventeenth-Century Chan Buddhist discourse records * Beata Grant (Washington University in St. Louis) abstract This article looks at some of the different ways in which the use of the term " da zhangfu " or "great gentleman" is exercised in the writings of seventeenth…
Women, Gender, and Religion in Premodern China
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/138768008X273746 Nan Nü 10 (2008) 152-175 www.brill.nl/nannü N A N N Ü Women, Gender, and Religion in Premodern China: A Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources in Chinese and Western Languages Beata Grant (Washington University in St. Louis) Note : is bibliography is necessarily selective, and is designed as complement to the essays in this special two-issue volume on the theme of women, gend…
Women, Gender and Religion in Premodern China
This is an introduction to the eight essays included in this special two-issue volume of Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China dedicated to the theme of women, gender and religion in premodern China. It is not intended as a comprehensive state-of-the-field overview. Rather, it seeks to address some of the issues and trends in this relatively under-represented area of scholarly research. It is for this reason that the discussion of the eight essa…
Stairway to Heaven
No, Stairway to Heaven is not an analysis of the hidden religious significance of the song lyrics made famous by Led Zeppelin, although that would not be inconceivable (“And if you listen very hard/The tune will come to you at last/When all are one and one is all”) Nor is it the travel account of an intrepid mountaineer, as one might mistakenly assume from the subtitle. It is more than that: a detailed and many-layered story of a mountain's rise,…
Mount Lu Revisited
Female Holder of the Lineage
Late Imperial China - Volume 17, Number 2, December 1996
Patterns of Female Religious Experience in Qing Dynasty Popular Literature
Who is This I? Who is That Other
WHO IS THIS I? WHO IS THAT OTHER? THE POETRY OF AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BUDDHIST LAYWOMAN Beata Grant One of the more exciting developments in the field of pre-modern Chinese studies has been the growing attention being paid to women's literary culture during the Ming-Qing period.1 The astounding number of anthologies and collections of women's poetry from this period—over three thousand—is attributable to the dramatic rise of female literacy, the …
Women and Gender in the Discourse Records of Seventeenth-Century Sichuanese Chan Masters Poshan Haiming and Tiebi Huiji
This article explores the textual presence of nuns and laywomen in the official discourse records of two of the most well-known and influential seventeenth-century Chan Buddhist masters active in mid-seventeenth-century Sichuan: Tiebi Huiji (1603–68) and Poshan Haiming (1597–1666). Close readings of the poems, sermons, and occasional letters composed to or about their female monastic disciples and lay followers shed light on the range of attitude…
Who is This I? Who is That Other
WHO IS THIS I? WHO IS THAT OTHER? THE POETRY OF AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BUDDHIST LAYWOMAN Beata Grant One of the more exciting developments in the field of pre-modern Chinese studies has been the growing attention being paid to women's literary culture during the Ming-Qing period.1 The astounding number of anthologies and collections of women's poetry from this period—over three thousand—is attributable to the dramatic rise of female literacy, the …
Patterns of Female Religious Experience in Qing Dynasty Popular Literature
Female Holder of the Lineage
Late Imperial China - Volume 17, Number 2, December 1996
Mount Lu Revisited
Stairway to Heaven
No, Stairway to Heaven is not an analysis of the hidden religious significance of the song lyrics made famous by Led Zeppelin, although that would not be inconceivable (“And if you listen very hard/The tune will come to you at last/When all are one and one is all”) Nor is it the travel account of an intrepid mountaineer, as one might mistakenly assume from the subtitle. It is more than that: a detailed and many-layered story of a mountain's rise,…
Eminent Nuns
The seventeenth century is generally acknowledged as one of the most politically tumultuous but culturally creative periods of late imperial Chinese history. Only recently beginning to be explored are such seventeenth-century religious phenomena as “the reinvention” of Chan Buddhism—a concerted effort to revive what were believed to be the traditional teachings, texts, and practices of “classical” Chan. And, until now, the role played by women in…
Da Zhangfu
Nan Nü 10 (2008) 177-211 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/138768008X368200 www.brill.nl/nanu N A N N Ü da zhangfu: The Gendered rhetoric of Heroism and equality in Seventeenth-Century Chan Buddhist discourse records * Beata Grant (Washington University in St. Louis) abstract This article looks at some of the different ways in which the use of the term " da zhangfu " or "great gentleman" is exercised in the writings of seventeenth…
Women, Gender, and Religion in Premodern China
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/138768008X273746 Nan Nü 10 (2008) 152-175 www.brill.nl/nannü N A N N Ü Women, Gender, and Religion in Premodern China: A Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources in Chinese and Western Languages Beata Grant (Washington University in St. Louis) Note : is bibliography is necessarily selective, and is designed as complement to the essays in this special two-issue volume on the theme of women, gend…
Women, Gender and Religion in Premodern China
This is an introduction to the eight essays included in this special two-issue volume of Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China dedicated to the theme of women, gender and religion in premodern China. It is not intended as a comprehensive state-of-the-field overview. Rather, it seeks to address some of the issues and trends in this relatively under-represented area of scholarly research. It is for this reason that the discussion of the eight essa…
The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
Escape from Blood Pond Hell
These translations of The Precious Scroll of the Three Lives of Mulian and Woman Huang Recites the Diamond Sutra are late-nineteenth-century examples of baojuan (literally, "precious scrolls"), a Chinese folk genre featuring alternating verse and prose that was used by monks to illustrate religious precepts for lay listeners. They represent only two of numerous versions, composed in a variety of genres, of these legends, which were once popular a…
Transformative Journeys
Reviewed by: Transformative Journeys: Travel and Culture in Song China by Cong Ellen Zhang Beata Grant Cong Ellen Zhang . Transformative Journeys: Travel and Culture in Song China. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011. Pp. xiv + 301. $49.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0824833992. Transformative Journeys represents a fine addition to the growing number of English-language studies on Song literati life and culture. As the author readily acknowledges, …
Women and Gender in the Discourse Records of Seventeenth-Century Sichuanese Chan Masters Poshan Haiming and Tiebi Huiji
This article explores the textual presence of nuns and laywomen in the official discourse records of two of the most well-known and influential seventeenth-century Chan Buddhist masters active in mid-seventeenth-century Sichuan: Tiebi Huiji (1603–68) and Poshan Haiming (1597–1666). Close readings of the poems, sermons, and occasional letters composed to or about their female monastic disciples and lay followers shed light on the range of attitude…
Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers, written by N. Harry Rothschild , 2015
Eminent Nuns
Although Buddhist nuns have been a continuous presence in Chinese culture since early medieval times and the subject of numerous scholarly studies, this book is one of the first not only to provide a detailed view of their activities at one particular moment in time (the seventeenth century), but also to be based largely on the writings and self-representations of Buddhist nuns themselves. This perspective is made possible by the preservation of …
Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism
In a demonstration of the value of interdisciplinary, culture-based approaches, this collection of essays on "later" Chinese Buddhism takes us beyond the bedrock subjects of traditional Buddhist historiography--scriptures and commentaries, sectarian developments, lives of notable monks--to examine a wide range of extracanonical materials that illuminate cultural manifestations of Buddhism from the Song dynasty (960-1279) through the modern period…
Thirty Years of Dream-Wandering
Zhang Ruzhao (1900-69), also known as Zhang Shenghui, was ordained as a Buddhist nun, with the title Tiantai Master Benkong. In early life, Zhang established a reputation as a poet, and was actively engaged in many of the political and feminist movements of the 1920s. Disillusioned both politically and personally, she turned to Buddhism and reinvented herself as China’s premier female lay Buddhist scholar, writer and educator during the 1930s and…
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