A history of Daoism and the Yao people of South China / Eli Alberts
- Author
- Alberts, Eli
- Published
- Youngstown, N.Y. : Cambria Press, [2006]
- Copyright Date
- ©2006
- Physical Description
- xx, 202 pages ; 24 cm
- Language Note
- English and Chinese.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: The discovery of Yao Daoism -- The Dao among the Yao revisited -- Yao Daoism before liberation -- The context of Strickmann's argument -- Daoism and sinification -- The significance and plan of the present work -- Pt. I Yao -- Ch. 1 Genealogy of a label : center and periphery -- The Jade radical and allusions to immortal realms -- The dog radical and associations with wild beasts -- Radical questions : what was the earliest form? -- The Moyao -- Connecting Moyao with Yaoren -- Yaoren as the opposite of Moyao -- Conclusion -- Ch. 2 Yao people and the southern man narrative -- The narrative elements -- Jingzhou and the Jingman -- Generic and specific applications of the term man -- Panhu and the Wuling man -- The peach blossom spring and the five streams -- Strange and impenetrable topography -- Grotto worlds -- Peach blossom Spring Grotto and Meishan Mountain -- The man as outsiders wairen -- The Panhu myth as the basis of man and state claims -- Taxation and Corvee -- Conclusion -- Ch. 3 The man inhabitants of Ba and the Li family -- The Linjun myth and the Ba clan -- The Banshun man -- Cong people -- The Li Family -- The Banshun man and the pacification of the Qiang tribes -- The Li family and the celestial masters -- The surname Li and Dao-ification / sinification -- Conclusion -- Pt. II Duo -- Ch. 4 The emergence and spread of the celestial masters -- Definitional domains of the term "Daoism" -- The early celestial masters and Chinese officialdom -- The western Han conception of the Sagely Ruler -- The utopian vision of the Taipingjing -- The Taipingjing as a Daoist or proto-Daoist text -- The yellow turbans and the de-centralization of imperial authority -- Banshun man connections to the yellow turbans -- Daoism and becoming Chinese -- How Yao became Daoists : Strickmann's argument -- Conclusion -- Ch. 5 Textual mandate on the periphery : script, image, and legitimacy in Yao culture -- The passport for crossing the mountains -- The myth of crossing the sea -- Visual framing of the text.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781934043141 (alk. paper)
1934043141 (alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-196) and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Floyd B. and Naomi A. Fischer Libraries Endowment; 2011.
- Endowment Note
- Floyd B. and Naomi A. Fischer Libraries Endowment
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