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Buddhist China at the Centurys Turn Author s : Raoul Birnbaum Source: The China Quarterly, No. 174, Religion in China Today Jun., 2003 , pp. 428-450 Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the School of Oriental and African Studies Stable URL: /stable/座机电话号码 Accessed: 11/03/2009 04:18 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use, available at / you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at /action/showPublisher?publisherCode cup. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. We work with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@. Cambridge University Press and School of Oriental and African Studies are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The China Quarterly. Buddhist China at the Centurys Turn Raoul Birnbaum Abstract Based on fieldwork and studies of historical and contemporary materials, this article investigates several issues key to Buddhist life in the present-day PRC, focusing on Han Buddhists, especially the monastic tradition. It argues that many current take their from the innovations that transformed Chinese practices shape Buddhist life in the late Qing and Republican periods. While profound political, economic and social changes have occurred in the