What were the 4 major persecutions of Buddhism in Chinese history?

Bright on Buddhism Episode 43 - What were the 4 major persecutions of Buddhism in Chinese history? Why did they happen? What were their historical effects? Resources: Spence, Jonathan D. 2013. The Search for Modern China. New York, W.W. Norton & Company. ; Ebrey Patricia Buckley. 1999. The Cambridge Illustrated History of China 1St pbk. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.; Chan, Wing-tsit, Ron Guey Chu, John Dardess, Edward Farmer, Leon Hurvitz, David N. Keightley, Richard John Lynn, et al. Sources of Chinese Tradition: Volume 1: From Earliest Times to 1600. Edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom. 2nd ed. Columbia University Press, 1999. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/deba10938.; Keay John. 2009. China : A History. New York: Basic Books a member of the Perseus Books Group.; Fairbank John King and Merle Goldman. 2015. China : A New History (version 2nd enl. ed) 2Nd enl. ed. Vancouver B.C: Langara College. http://caperbc.ca/requests/request-form/.; Schirokauer Conrad and Miranda Brown. 2013. A Brief History of Chinese Civilization (version 4th ed). 4th ed. Boston MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning. https://archive.org/details/briefhistoryofch0000schi_o2l2.; Yu Yingshi Josephine Chiu-Duke and Michael S Duke. 2016. Chinese History and Culture. Volume 1 Sixth Century B.c.e. to Seventeenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/yu--17858. Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss?  Let us know by finding us on email or social media!  https://linktr.ee/brightonbuddhism Credits: Nick Bright: Script, Cover Art, Music, Voice of Hearer, Co-Host Proven Paradox: Editing, mixing and mastering, social media, Voice of Hermit, Co-Host