Introduction / Jan Kiely and J. Brooks Jessup -- Buddhist activism, urban space, and ambivalent modernity in 1920s Shanghai / J. Brooks Jessup -- Buddhism and the modern epistemic space: Buddhist intellectuals in the science and philosophy of life debates / Erik J. Hammerstrom -- A revolution of ink: Chinese and Buddhist periodicals in the early republic / Gregory Adam Scott -- Resurrecting Xuanzang; the modern travels of a medieval monk / Benjamin Brose -- Buddhist efforts for the reconciliation of Buddhism and Marxism in the early years of the People's Republic of China / Xue Yu -- The communist dismantling of temple and monastic Buddhism in Suzhou / Jan Kiely -- Mapping religious difference: lay Buddhist textual communities in the post-Mao period / Gareth Fisher -- "Receiving Prayer Beads": a lay-Buddhist ritual performed by menopausal women in Ninghua, Wester Fujian / Neky Tak-Ching Cheung.