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Quanzhen Daoists in Chinese Society and Culture, 1500–2010

by Xin Liu (Editor), Vincent Goossaert (Editor)
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Price: $35.00 / £30.00
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher:
Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 398
ISBN: 9781557291073
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Series:
  • China Research Monograph
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About the Book

This volume covers Quanzhen Daoism both as a historical phenomenon and a living religion. The contributors explore continuities and innovations in the realm of geneaological discourse, canonical compilation and transmission, and ritual codification. Also discussed is the relationship of Quanzhen Daoism, the state, and local society.

About the Author

Xun Liu is professor of history at Rutgers University. His research addresses the history of Daoism and the impact of Daoists temples upon local culture and society. He is the author of Daoist Modern: Innovation, Lay Practice and the Community of Inner Alchemy in Republican Shanghai (2009) and coeditor of Quanzhen Daoists in Chinese Society and Culture, 1500–2010 (IEAS, 2013). Education: B.A., Huazhong Normal University; Ph.D., University of Southern California

Vincent Goossaert is professor of history at École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) and serves as deputy director of Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (GSRL). He works on the social history of modern religions in China. His coedited volumes include The Religious Question in Modern China (2011) and Quanzhen Daoists in Chinese Society and Culture, 1500-2010 (IEAS, 2013). Education: B.A., École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC); M.A., Université Paris 4 DEA, Sciences Religieuses, École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Paris; Ph.D., Sciences Religieuses, EPHE, Paris

Table of Contents

Contributors – ix
Acknowledgments – xi
Conventions – xiii

Introduction – 1
Xun Liu and Vincent Goossaert

Part 1. Making Quanzhen Identities

1. Quanzhen, What Quanzhen? Late Imperial Daoist Clerical Identities in Lay Perspective – 19
    Vincent Goossaert

2. The Invention of a Quanzhen Canon: The Wondrous Fate of the Daozang jiyao – 44
    Monica Esposito 

3. A Late Qing Blossoming of the Seven Lotus: Hagiographic Novels about the Qizhen – 78
    Vincent Durand-Dastès

4. Globalizing Daoism at Huashan: Quanzhen Monks, Danwei Politics, and International Dream Trippers – 113
    David A. Palmer

Part 2. Quanzhen Textual and Ritual Productions

5. Quanzhen and Longmen Identities in the Works of Wu Shouyang – 141
    Paul G. G. Van Enckevort 

6. Being Local through Ritual: Quanzhen Appropriation of Zhengyi Liturgy in the Chongkan Daozang jiyao – 171
    Mori Yuria

7. Quanzhen Daoism and Ritual Medicine: A Study of ""Thirteen Sections of Zhuyou Medicine from the Yellow Emperor Inscription"" – 208
    Fang Ling

Part 3. Quanzhen Daoists and Local Society

8. A Local Longmen Lineage in Late Ming–Early Qing Yunnan – 235

    Richard G. Wang

9. Quanzhen Proliferates Learning: The Xuanmiao Temple, Clerical Activism, and the Modern Reforms in Nanyang, 1880s–1940s – 269
    Xun Liu

10.Temple and Household Daoists: Notes from North China – 308
    Stephen Jones

Bibliography – 335
Index – 369

Reviews

“The volume reads like a lively and always precise introduction to the social and cultural role that religious figures and traditions played in late imperial and modern China. Quanzhen presence is shown to have been overwhelming. This is explained by Gossaert’s [sic] intriguing list of this group’s multiple identities….The volume is an essential contribution to the history of religion in China, on methodological grounds, documented in particular in the introduction, and because of its wealth of materials.”—Barbara Hendrischke, University of Sydney, Religious Studies Review 41, no. 3 (September 2015): 127.

“This detailed work is aimed at specialists in the field but also at a wider intellectual audience interested in Chinese society as a whole and the complex religious landscape that in part defines it. It will doubtless become a precious manual for university students of religious studies and Chinese history….One major appeal of the work is that, through variations in approach, scale and perspective (historical, Sinological, sociological, and anthropological), it succeeds in demonstrating that Quanzhen has not been a homogeneous category in time or space.” —Adeline Herrou, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d’Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative (France), Daoism: Religion, History and Society, no. 8 (2016): 294–309