Religious experience and lay society in T'ang China : a reading of Tai Fu's Kuang-i chi
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.
Print Book, Chinese, 2002
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2002
ix, 256 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
9780521893220, 0521893224
1051653716
Acknowledgements; Note to the reader; Maps; 1. A sequence of voices; 2. A contemporary view; 3. The dynamics of Tai Fu's world; 4. The worshippers of Mount Hua; 5. Yü-ch'ih Chiung at An-yang; 6. Victims of the Yüan Ch'ao rebellion; 7. Mating with spirits; Appendix: the stories of Kuang-i chi; List of works cited; Index.