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Ann Swann
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R892
Discovery Miles 8 920
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The Tung-yUeh Miao in Peking is a veritable pantheon housing
hundreds of deities with scores of attendants, presided over by the
Great God of the Eastern Peak. Mrs. Goodrich, in her delightful
narrative, relates the stories of these deities: how they came to
be deified, how they secured the faith and trust of thousands of
devotees, and how they managed to accomodate themselves to each
other without interfering with the rights and responsibilities of
the neighboring deities. Here is the story of how a faithful
people, common fold, gradually built up a religious, syncretistic
system happily free from any shackles of logic and historical
accuracy. Yet it worked so well that the Chinese flocked to this
temple at regular intervals. If there is a popular demand, a common
need, a private hope or anxiety, there must be a deity who answers
to it. If not, people will create such a deity and show that its
worship is not useless and therefore justified.Anne S. Goodrich
lived in China for seven years, spending most of her time in
Peking, but making trips that took her as far north as Jehol, and
as far south as Changsha and Canton. In 1923 she married L.
Carrington Goodrich. With her husband she has traveled extensively
in Asia.Janet R. Ten Broeck made detailed studies of the Tung-yUeh
Miao, part of which she has published, together with Dr. Yiu Tung
in T'oung Pao XL (1950-1951). She lived in Peking with her husband
who for seven years (1920-1927) held a professorship at the Peking
Union Medical College.
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Seekers
Ann Swann
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R492
Discovery Miles 4 920
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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She went looking for an old flame and found a serial killer
instead. When Beth lost her father to cancer and her husband to
another woman, she didn't know where to turn. So she retreated to
the family cabin at Stutter Creek. Some of the best times of her
life were spent at that cabin. That's where she met her first
crush, a boy named John. But that was many years ago . . . could he
possibly still be around? Or would she find something sinister
instead?
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