Great Perfection

Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom

Bibliographic Data

ID12025944
AuthorsPhilip Clart (corresponding author), Terry F Kleeman
Year1999
Volume58
Issue1
Pages258-258
Publication date1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Folklore Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0385-2342
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1178905
OpenAlexW626897015
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Great Perfection tells the story of the Ba people and of the Li family in particular. Engaging the most recent scholarship in Western, Chinese, and Japanese languages (including archaeological and ethnic publications), the study begins in the mists of prehistory, traces the early history of the Ba, chronicles the rise of the Daoist faith and their role in it, then sets forth in detail a chronicle of the state of Great Perfection. Central to the work is a translation of all surviving historical records concerning the state, which have been conflated here in an attempt to reconstruct the lost Book of the Lis of Sichuan, a contemporary first-hand source by the state's historian. As the first study in any Western language devoted to the Ba or to the Great Perfection kingdom, this volume breaks new ground in Chinese ethnography and history. As the first book-length treatment of a Daoist millennial kingdom, it is a major contribution to the history of early Daoism and a significant addition to scholarship on apocalyptic thought worldwide

Ethnic chinese · Ethnic group · Kingdom · Perfection · Political science · Theology · Chinese history and philosophy · Geology · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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