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Title: Making transcendents ascetics and social memory in early medieval China / Robert Ford Campany. Ascetics and social memory in early medieval China
Ascetics and social memory in early medieval China Ascetics and social memory in early medieval China

Main Entry: Campany, Robert Ford, 1959-
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Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press,
Publication Date: c2009.
Publication Place: Honolulu :
ISBN: 9780824833336 (hard cover : alk. paper)
Subject: Asceticism -- Taoism -- History -- To 1500.
Taoism -- Social aspects -- China -- History -- To 1500.
Electronic books.

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.
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