Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China

A Reading of Tai Fu's Kuang-i chi

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19912878
AutoresGlen Dudbridge (University of Oxford, autor correspondente)
Ano1995
Data de publicação1995-01-01
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoReligious Experience and Lay Society in T'Ang China (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511523823
OpenAlexW4214750824
Open LibraryOL34443204M
ISBN9780511523823
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12

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. This study develops a style of close reading through which those tales give access to the lives of individuals in eighth-century China. 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, whose members' lives at all levels were profoundly shaped by their perceived experience of contact with the other world. It was a society embarking on fundamental change, and this book uses the sharp historical focus of Tai Fu's collection to study the dynamics of that change. The work gracefully reveals the transition from the beliefs and institutions of early mediaeval China towards those we now recognize as modern

Art · China · Dynamics (music) · Literature · Pedagogy · Political science · Reading (process) · Sociology · Style (visual arts) · Transition (genetics) · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Fu Tai (chin shih 757) · Geloofsgemeenschappen · Gesellschaft · Occultism · Occultisme · Okkultismus · Religion · Religiöse Erfahrung · Surnaturel · Tangdynastie