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Hardcover Images of the Immortal: The Cult of Lu Dongbin at the Palace of Eternal Joy Book

ISBN: 082482170X

ISBN13: 9780824821708

Images of the Immortal: The Cult of Lu Dongbin at the Palace of Eternal Joy

The Palace of Eternal Joy (Yongle Gong) is a mammoth cult site dedicated to one of late imperial China's most popular deities, Lu Dongbin. This study focuses on the Palace's role in the development of Lu's legend. It takes into account the various histories of the Palace presented in different texts and stresses the ways in which the site both reflected and produced cultural diversity. Paul R. Katz analyzes the texts in terms of the textuality - the...

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