...Chad Hansen The Penumbra Unbound: The Neo-Taoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang . By Brook Ziporyn. Albany : State University of New York Press , 2003 . 256 pp. $68.50 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 502 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D...

...Robert Borgen Classical Learning and Taoist Practices in Early Japan, with a Translation of Books XVI and XX of the Engi-shiki . Translated and Annotated by Felicia G. Bock . Tempe : Arizona State University, Center for Asian Studies , 1985 . (Occasional Paper no. 17.) vi, 102 pp. Notes...

...Harvey Molé The Teaching of Taoist Master Chuang . By Michael Saso . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1978 . xiii, 317 pp. Illustrations, Figures, Diagram, Notes, Select Bibliography, Index, Chinese Characters. $17.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Michael Saso Taoist Ritual in Chinese Society and History . By John Lagerwey . New York : Macmillan , 1987 . xviii, 364 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 600 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES for a vivid portrayal of what it was like...

...Tao-Chung Yao Tao-chia ta tz'u-tien [The Great Dictionary of Taoist Religion] . By Li Shu-Huan . Chü-liu t'u-shu kung-ssu , 1979 . vii, 700 pp. No price. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 115 line, will be characteristic of Chinese...

...T. H. Barrett Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques . Edited by Livia Kohn , in cooperation with Yoshinobu Sakade . Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies 61. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies , 1989 . xii, 384 pp. $24.50 (cloth), $16.50 (paper...

...Susan Brownell The Taoist Body . By Kristofer Schipper . Translated by Karen C. Duval . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1993 . xx, 273 pp. $40.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 1254 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES the degree of market...

... dealt with complexities of Chinese discourse on opium mote thoroughly, and also could have used more careful copyediting, it presents much useful information on the topic of opium in twentieth-century China. ALAN BAUMLER Indiana University of Pennsylvania JAPAN Old Taoist: The Life, Art, and Poetry...

...Brook Ziporyn The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang . 3 vols. Edited by Kristofer Schipper and Franciscus Verellen . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2004 . 1637 pp. $175.00 (cloth, boxed set). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007...

...Jo-Shui Chen Li Ao: Buddhist, Taoist, or Neo-Confucian? . By T. H. Barrett . Oxford University Press , London Oriental Series Volume 39, 1992 . xiv, 178 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 974 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Siu-chi Huang Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 The Parting of the Way: Lao Tzu and the Taoist Movement . By Holmes Welch . Boston : Beacon Press , 1957 . 204 . $5.00. 134 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES the records were left in China when the Westerners...

...Russell Kirkland Laughing at the Tao: Debates among Buddhists and Taoists in Medieval China . By Livia Kohn . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1995 . xii, 281 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 152 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Xun Liu The Taoists of Peking, 1800–1949 . By Vincent Goossaert . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2007 . xv , 395 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 What was the state of Chinese religion, especially Daoism...

...Suzanne E. Cahill Du Guangting (850–933). Taoïste de cour à la fin de la Chine médiévale . [A Court Taoist in Late Medieval China]. By Franciscus Verellen . Preface by Kristofer Schipper. Paris, France : Collége de France , 1989 . Mémoires de l'lnstitut des Hautes Études Chinoises, volume...

... of Taoist studies in the West from 1950 to 1990 that for this topic alone is 124 pages long (Seidel 1989–90). New documents, from Shang oracle bones to twentieth-century spirit-writing texts, are being discovered, the Taoist canon has been systematically surveyed for the first time, and fresh...

... nihilo of a nationwide network of public schools, but as the declaration of a religious reform, that is, a change in religious policy that would rid China of temple cults and their specialists, Buddhists, Taoists, and spirit-mediums. This it was, indeed, although both Chinese and Western historiography...

...Kristofer Schipper Abstract Rituals that accompany community celebrations in China come in two kinds: vernacular and classical. The reason why these two forms exist is not easily explained. To the two forms of liturgy correspond two kinds of specialists: the tao-shi (Taoist dignitary) and the fa...

...Franciscus Verellen Abstract Circumscribing the place of taoists in Chinese society is not straightforward for any period: honored by emperors and members of the nobility, they were scorned, as a rule, by literati-officials and treated with a mixture of reverence and familiarity by ordinary people...

... Records as the “thought of Huang-Lao,” that was prevalent in China in the second century B.C. and that may have originated in the ancient state of Ch'u. This paper proposes that the thought of Huang-Lao, as a fusion of Taoist and Legalist ideas, articulates a coherent political philosophy that emphasizes...

... by the Taoist principle of “non-action,” preferring to leave the people to govern themselves which they do very well, and which is all they ask. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1944 1944 2 Ibid., pp. 76–80. 3 In contrast to this article the spirit of the law towards...