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The Lady of Linshui—the goddess of women, childbirth, and
childhood—is still venerated in south China, Taiwan, and
Southeast Asia. Her story evolved from the life of Chen Jinggu in
the eighth century and blossomed in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
into vernacular short fiction, legends, plays, sutras, and stele
inscriptions at temples where she is worshipped. The full-length
novel The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons narrates Chen Jinggu’s
lifelong struggle with and eventual triumph over her spirit double
and rival, the White Snake demon. Among accounts of goddesses in
late imperial China, this work is unique in its focus on the
physical aspects of womanhood, especially the dangers of
childbirth, and in its dramatization of the contradictory nature of
Chinese divinities. This unabridged, annotated translation provides
insights into late imperial Chinese religion, the lives of women,
and the structure of families and local society.
This anthropological study examines the cult of the Chinese goddess
Chen Jinggu, divine protector of women and children. The cult of
the "Lady of Linshui" began in the province of Fujian on the
southeastern coast of China during the eleventh century and remains
vital in present-day Taiwan. Skilled in Daoist practices, Chen
Jinggu's rituals of exorcism and shamanism mobilize physiological
alchemy in the service of human and natural fertility. Through her
fieldwork at the Linshuima temple in Tainan (Taiwan) and her
analysis of the narrative and symbolic aspects of legends
surrounding the Lady of Linshui, Baptandier provides new insights
into Chinese representations of the feminine and the role of women
in popular religion.
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