Background
Poo was born in Taiwan and obtained his undergraduate degree from National Taiwan University (1975).
(This book is the first major reassessment of ancient Chin...)
This book is the first major reassessment of ancient Chinese religion to appear in recent years. It provides a historical investigation of broadly shared religious beliefs and goals in ancient China from the earliest period to the end of the Han Dynasty. The author makes use of recently acquired archeological data, traditional texts, and modern scholarly work from China, Japan, and the West. The overall concern of this book is to try to reach the religious mentality of the ancient Chinese in the context of personal and daily experiences. Poo deals with such problems as the definition of religion, the popular/elite controversy in methodology, and the use of "elite" documents in the study of ordinary life.
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(Ancient civilisations came into contact with one another ...)
Ancient civilisations came into contact with one another through various channels, including trade and exchange, and warfare, which inevitably led to differentiation between 'us' and 'them'. The ways in which ancient societies conceived of this difference, and how it manifested itself in their culture, is the subject of this comparative history of attitudes towards foreigners in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. Rather than examining each civilisation in turn, Mu-chou Poo approaches the subject thematically exploring primarily textual evidence for key concepts such as 'self', ethnic identity, prejudice, cultural consciousness, and asks where these attitudes originated, why they came about and on what grounds they were based. What he finds is that, unlike today, foreignness was not thught of as a racial or biological difference, but was the result of cultural difference, involving issues of geography, language, religion and socio-economic development.
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蒲慕州
Poo was born in Taiwan and obtained his undergraduate degree from National Taiwan University (1975).
After receiving his Doctor of Philosophy from The Johns Hopkins University (1984), he became a Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica (1983-2009).
Currently, Poo teaches at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Professor of History.
(Ancient civilisations came into contact with one another ...)
(This book is the first major reassessment of ancient Chin...)
(First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)