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The lady of Linshui : a Chinese female cult / Brigitte Baptandier ; translated by Kristin Ingrid Fryklund.
Van Pelt Library BL1812.G63 B3613 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baptandier, Brigitte.
- Series:
- Asian religions & cultures
- Standardized Title:
- Dame-du-bord-de-l'eau. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Chen Jinggu (Goddess).
- Goddesses--China.
- Goddesses.
- Women and religion--China.
- Women and religion.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- 1 Sexual Categories 43
- 2 The Goddess of Pregnancy Has an Abortion and Returns to Mt. Lu 65
- 3 The Bridge of a Hundred Flowers 85
- 4 Cinnabar Cloud Monkey 105
- 5 The Thirty-six Pojie 123
- 6 The God of the Soil and the Lady of the Birth Register 142
- 7 Women and the Temple: The "Celestial Flower" 166
- 8 Children and the Temple: The Passes (guan) 196
- 9 Rituals of the Flowers and Passes 222
- 10 Chen Jinggu's Medium 242.
- Notes:
- Translation of: La dame-du-bord-de-l'eau. c1988.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-347) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780804746663
- 0804746664
- OCLC:
- 182735874
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