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Facets of Qing Daoism (Hardcover)
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Facets of Qing Daoism (Hardcover)
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As China is rapidly reemerging as the world's dominant economic
powerhouse that it had been until the mid-eighteenth century,
interest in its religions and philosophies is on the rise. Just as
the history and culture of Western civilizations can hardly be
grasped without a measure of knowledge about Christianity, an
understanding of Chinese civilization and its history seems
impossible without some comprehension of Daoism. Though it has long
been clear that modern Daoism has its roots in Daoist movements of
the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), research on premodern Daoism had been
largely neglected. Published in six languages (Italian, French,
English, German, Chinese, and Japanese), the pioneering studies by
Monica Esposito (1962-2011) on Qing Daoism have been instrumental
in kindling keen scholarly interest both in the West and in China
and Japan. This book presents corrected and augmented versions of
three of Dr Esposito's seminal articles that had originally been
published in English ("Daoism in the Qing," "The Longmen School and
its Controversial History," and "Longmen Daoism in Qing China:
Doctrinal Ideal and Local Reality") along with English versions of
two articles that had hitherto only been available in Japanese and
Chinese: "Beheading the Red Dragon: The Heart of Feminine Alchemy"
and "An Example of Daoist and Tantric Interaction during the Qing
Dynasty: The Longmen xinzong." In addition, this volume contains a
bibliography of all her publications and a detailed index.
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