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Nomads on pilgrimage : Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940

Charleux, Isabelle, author

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\"Nomads on Pilgrimage : Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940 is a social history of the Mongols' pilgrimages to Wutaishan in late imperial and Republican times. In this period of economic crisis and rise of nationalism and anticlericalism in Mongolia and China, this great Buddhist mountain of China became a unique place of intercultural exchanges, mutual borrowings, and competition between different ethnic groups. Based on a variety of written and visual sources, including a rich corpus of more than 340 Mongolian stone inscriptions, it documents why and how Wutaishan became one of the holiest sites for Mongols, who eventually reshaped its physical and spiritual landscape by their rites and strategies of appropriation\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Brill
• Subject: Mongols China Wutai Mountains History. / Mongols China Wutai Mountains Social life and customs. / Pilgrims and pilgrimages China Wutai Mountains History. / Mongols Antiquities. / Inscriptions, Mongolian China Wutai Mountains. / Nationalism China History. / Anti-clericalism China History. / Wutai Mountains (China) History. / Wutai Mountains (China) Religious life and customs. / Wutai Mountains (China) Ethnic relations.
• ISBN: 9789004296015, 9004296018

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS793.W8222 C47 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE