DOC Description De L'Egypte: Napoleon's Expedition to the Discovery of Ancient Egypt by Franco Serino in History

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The reprinting in 2007 of a book originally produced nearly fifty years earlier (and based on a doctoral dissertation begun in the early 1950s) is not merely a publishing event. It constitutes a milestone in the academic study of early Chinese Buddhism that shows at once both how far the field has progressed in the past half-century as well as how fundamental the book remains. (From the new Introduction.) At the repeated request of many scholars and students here is a new edition of E. Zurcher's groundbreaking The Buddhist Conquest of China. In his extensive introduction Stephen F. Teiser (D.T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies; Princeton University) explains why the book is still the standard in the field of early Chinese Buddhism. The introduction; newly written for this edition; analyzes the development of the field from the 1950s to the present. This edition is also updated by utilizing Pinyin (rather than the Wade-Giles system of the first two editions) for the transcription of Chinese and by including a thorough bibliography of E. Zurcher's more recent work.