Elena Valussi
Biographic Data
| ID | 5177758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena Valussi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena |
| FAMILY NAME | Valussi |
| SIGNATURE | VALUSSI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3647-8164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Daoism in Sichuan
Sichuan and the surrounding region of south-west China has long been an active center of religious knowledge production, a node of religious networks that originate and/or develop within it and extend beyond it, and has given birth to important religious movements. This article attempts to uncover a part of the history of Daoism in Sichuan that has not been fully analyzed, in terms of the geographical area, the time period, the community, and the…
Communicating with the Gods
Few religious innovations have shaped Chinese history like the emergence of spirit-writing during the Song dynasty. From a divinatory technique it evolved into a complex ritual practice used to transmit messages and revelations from the Gods. This resulted in the production of countless religious scriptures that now form an essential corpus, widely venerated and recited to this day, that is still largely untapped by research. Using historical and…
Men Built Religion, and Women Made It Superstitious
Religion in twentieth-century China was reorganized according to new, modern, and scientific paradigms; in this novel definition, which excluded many communal experiences deemed superstitious, religion came to be identified more with personal practice and individual beliefs, understood as self-strengthening and self-improvement, and was to be one of the responses against Western Imperialism and Japanese occupation. Women had always been seen as c…
Yi-Li Wu, Reproducing Women
Yi Li-Wu's book, Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor and Childbirth in Late Imperial China, is an excellent addition to the growing fields of Chinese medicine and gender studies in China. Wu identifies her aim in the book very clearly at the outset: ‘This book examines how ... medical thinkers of late imperial China approached a set of universal concerns ... promoting fertility, sustaining pregnancy, ensuring the safe delivery of healthy babies…
Women’s Qigong in America
187 Women’s Qigong in America Tradition, Adaptation, and New Trends ELENA VALUSSI This article examines the following ten publications on women’s qigong techniques: Videos Chia, Mantak, 1998. Slaying the Red Dragon. Lee, Daisy. n.d. Radiant Lotus: Qigong for Women. Liu, Yafei. n.d. Nüzi qigong (Chinese/German). Books Chia, Mantak. 2005 [1986]. Healing Love through the Dao: Cultivating Female Sexual Energy. Destiny Books. Davis, Deborah. 2008. Wom…
Blood, Tigers, Dragons
This article sets out to compare visions of the female body and its processes found in Chinese medicine and in a Daoist tradition called nüdan, or female alchemy. This tradition, developed fully in the late Ming and Qing periods, describes the female body in ways very similar to those of Chinese medicine. However, despite the fact that loci, fluids and processes are described in a similar manner in the two textual traditions, the goals to reach a…
Men and Women in He Longxiang's Nüdan hebian
This article is an exploration of a tradition of Daoist self-cultivation, directed exclusively to women, which flourished in China from the seventeenth century. Nudan, or female alchemy, is described here through the close analysis of one of its more representative collections, the Nudan hebian, first printed in Chengdu, Sichuan, in 1906. The detailed discussion of its editorial history, its contents and its preface, as well as the presentation o…
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Blood, Tigers, Dragons
This article sets out to compare visions of the female body and its processes found in Chinese medicine and in a Daoist tradition called nüdan, or female alchemy. This tradition, developed fully in the late Ming and Qing periods, describes the female body in ways very similar to those of Chinese medicine. However, despite the fact that loci, fluids and processes are described in a similar manner in the two textual traditions, the goals to reach a…
Men and Women in He Longxiang's Nüdan hebian
This article is an exploration of a tradition of Daoist self-cultivation, directed exclusively to women, which flourished in China from the seventeenth century. Nudan, or female alchemy, is described here through the close analysis of one of its more representative collections, the Nudan hebian, first printed in Chengdu, Sichuan, in 1906. The detailed discussion of its editorial history, its contents and its preface, as well as the presentation o…
Women’s Qigong in America
187 Women’s Qigong in America Tradition, Adaptation, and New Trends ELENA VALUSSI This article examines the following ten publications on women’s qigong techniques: Videos Chia, Mantak, 1998. Slaying the Red Dragon. Lee, Daisy. n.d. Radiant Lotus: Qigong for Women. Liu, Yafei. n.d. Nüzi qigong (Chinese/German). Books Chia, Mantak. 2005 [1986]. Healing Love through the Dao: Cultivating Female Sexual Energy. Destiny Books. Davis, Deborah. 2008. Wom…
Yi-Li Wu, Reproducing Women
Yi Li-Wu's book, Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor and Childbirth in Late Imperial China, is an excellent addition to the growing fields of Chinese medicine and gender studies in China. Wu identifies her aim in the book very clearly at the outset: ‘This book examines how ... medical thinkers of late imperial China approached a set of universal concerns ... promoting fertility, sustaining pregnancy, ensuring the safe delivery of healthy babies…
Men Built Religion, and Women Made It Superstitious
Religion in twentieth-century China was reorganized according to new, modern, and scientific paradigms; in this novel definition, which excluded many communal experiences deemed superstitious, religion came to be identified more with personal practice and individual beliefs, understood as self-strengthening and self-improvement, and was to be one of the responses against Western Imperialism and Japanese occupation. Women had always been seen as c…
Communicating with the Gods
Few religious innovations have shaped Chinese history like the emergence of spirit-writing during the Song dynasty. From a divinatory technique it evolved into a complex ritual practice used to transmit messages and revelations from the Gods. This resulted in the production of countless religious scriptures that now form an essential corpus, widely venerated and recited to this day, that is still largely untapped by research. Using historical and…
Daoism in Sichuan
Sichuan and the surrounding region of south-west China has long been an active center of religious knowledge production, a node of religious networks that originate and/or develop within it and extend beyond it, and has given birth to important religious movements. This article attempts to uncover a part of the history of Daoism in Sichuan that has not been fully analyzed, in terms of the geographical area, the time period, the community, and the…
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