Daoist Modern: Innovation, Lay Practice, and the Community of Inner Alchemy in Republican Shanghai by Xun Liu
Daoist Modern: Innovation, Lay Practice, and the Community of Inner Alchemy in Republican Shanghai
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Xun Liu
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Daoist Modern: Innovation, Lay Practice, and the Community of Inner Alchemy in Republican Shanghai

Xun Liu

396 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

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Between the 1920s and 1940s, Chen led a group of urban lay followers in pursuing Daoist self-cultivation techniques as a way of ensuring health, promoting spirituality, forging cultural self-identity, building community, and strengthening the nati...

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