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Subject(s)

• Taoism—China—Rituals [Browse]
• Taoism—Taiwan—Rituals [Browse]
• Cults—China [Browse]
• Cults—Taiwan [Browse]

Series

Princeton Legacy Library ; 256

Summary note

Most commentators imagine contemporary China to be monolithic, atheistic, and materialist, and wholly divorced from its earlier customs, but Kenneth Dean combines evidence from historical texts and extensive fieldwork to reveal an entirely different picture. Since 1979, when the Chinese government relaxed some of its most stringent controls on religion, villagers in the isolated areas of Southeast China have maintained an "underground" effort to restore traditional rituals and local cults.Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-273) and index.

Source of description

• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
• Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• LIST OF TABLES AND CHARTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• ONE. TAOISM IN FUJIAN
• TWO. THE GREAT EMPEROR WHO PROTECTS LIFE
• THREE. THE PATRIARCH OF THE CLEAR STREAM
• FOUR. THE REVERENT LORD OF BROAD COMPASSION
• CONCLUSION
• APPENDIX I. FOUR SONG TITLES OF INVESTITURE FOR THE PATRIARCH OF THE CLEAR STREAM
• APPENDIX II. THE DOSSIER OF THE REVERENT LORD OF BROAD COMPASSION
• APPENDIX III. CHINESE TEXT OF SCRIPTURES
• NOTES
• GLOSSARY
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX

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Other format(s)

Issued also in print.

ISBN

• 9780691601120
• 0691601127
• 9780691630885
• 0691630887
• 9780691044736
• 0691044732
• 9781400863402
• 1400863406

OCLC

• 889252629
• 1013947070
• 922697153

Doi

• 10.1515/9781400863402

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