Daoist Philosophy and Literati Writings in Late Imperial China(English, Hardcover, Zhou Zuyan)

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Daoist Philosophy and Literati Writings in Late Imperial China(English, Hardcover, Zhou Zuyan) is written by Zhou Zuyan and published by The Chinese University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 962996497X (ISBN 10) and 9789629964979 (ISBN 13).

This volume first explores the transformation of Chinese Daoism in late imperial period through the writings of prominent literati scholars of the period. In such a cultural context it then launches an in-depth investigation into the Daoist dimensions of the Chinese narrative masterpiece, The Story of the Stone: the inscriptions of Quanzhen Daoism in the infrastructure of its religious framework, the ideological ramifications of the Daoist concepts of chaos, purity, and the natural, as well as the Daoist images of the gourd, fish, and bird. The author demonstrates in an insightful manner the central position of Daoist philosophy both in the ideological structure of the Stone and the literati culture that spawns it.