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

By Glen Dudbridge

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0521482232, 9780521482233
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8633109 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions
Pages
\269
Time added
2020-10-04 12:07:01

Description

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. Through the eyes of a mid-century county official the picture emerges of a complex lay society, served by a mixed priesthood of ritual practitioners. This study develops a style of close reading through which the tales give access to the lives of individuals in eighth-century China, a society embarking on fundamental change.

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