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Making transcendents : ascetics and social memory in early medieval China / Robert Ford Campany.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campany, Robert Ford, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asceticism--Taoism--History--To 1500.
- Asceticism.
- Taoism--Social aspects--China--History--To 1500.
- Taoism.
- Taoism--Social aspects.
- History.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Ascetics and social memory in early medieval China
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2009]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-289) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824833336
- 0824833333
- OCLC:
- 270940682
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