China - A Religious State

The product of extensive fieldwork on local society and festivals in China, this book represents a first attempt to integrate top-down and bottom-up views of Chinese society, culture, and history. It will be of interest to a wide range of China specialist

About the author

John Lagerwey is a professor of Daoist history at the 381cole Pratique des Hautes 381tudes and of Chinese studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is author of Taoist Ritual in Chinese Society and History and editor of the thirty-volume "Traditional Hakka Society Series" as well as the recently published four-volume set Early Chinese Religion.

Product details

• Authors: Cho-Yun Hsu, John Lagerwey
• Assisted by: Joseph Y. S. Cheng (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 22
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2010
• EAN: 9789888028030
• ISBN: 978-988-8028-03-0
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Understanding China: New Viewp; Understanding China: New Viewp
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions