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Making transcendents : ascetics and social memory in early medieval China /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campany, Robert Ford, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Taoism > Social aspects > China > History > To 1500.
Asceticism > Taoism > History > To 1500.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Bringing transcendents down to earth
  • The transcendent's cultural repertoire
  • Deeper repertoire analysis: "avoiding grains"
  • Secret arts, manifest wonders
  • Verbal self-presentation and audience response
  • Adepts and their communities
  • Adepts, their families, and the imperium
  • Hagiographic persuasions.