TY  - JOUR
SN  - 0004-4482
AU  - Mark Halperin
TI  - Critical Patronage: A Few Southern Song Confucians on Daoism
JO  - Asia Major
JA  - Asia Major
VL  - 33
IS  - 2
SP  - 93
EP  - 134
KW  - Neo-Confucianism, Daoism, heterodoxy, Southern Song, Wei Liaoweng, Huang Zhen, abbeys
PY  - 2020
AB  - Southern Song scholar-officials, threatened by powerful external dynasties and committed to a restoration of the classical Way, inherited the predicaments and ambitions of their Northern Song predecessors. In many ways, they broke new ground, however, since some literati sought to strengthen the nation and its heritage through a Confucian militancy that pointedly disparaged Daoists and their works. Specifically, this article examines how prominent writers, such as Lou Yue, Wei Liaoweng, and Huang Zhen, used prefaces and abbey commemorations not to praise Daoist clergy and temples but to slight and condemn them. Such unprecedented displays of open hostility on Daoist turf reflect the radical self-fashioning and cultural purification undertaken by Southern Song Confucians.
Y1  - 2020
ER  -