Religious Experience and Lay Society in T''ang China - A Reading of Tai Fu''s ''Kuang-I Chi''

Klappentext The remains of Tai Fu's lost collection Kuang-i chi preserve three hundred short tales of encounters with the other world. This study analyses these tales. Zusammenfassung The remains of Tai Fu's lost collection Kuang-i chi ('The Great Book of Marvels') preserve three hundred short tales of encounters with the other world. This study develops a style of close reading through which those tales give access to the lives of individuals in eighth-century China. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Note to the reader; Maps; 1. A sequence of voices; 2. A contemporary view; 3. The dynamics of Tai Fu's world; 4. The worshippers of Mount Hua; 5. Yü-ch'ih Chiung at An-yang; 6. Victims of the Yüan Ch'ao rebellion; 7. Mating with spirits; Appendix: the stories of Kuang-i chi; List of works cited; Index.

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• Authors: Glen Dudbridge, Glen (University of Oxford) Dudbridge
• Assisted by: Patrick Hannan (Editor), Denis Twitchett (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.06.2002
• EAN: 9780521893220
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89322-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese H
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages