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Religion and Folk Belief in Chinese Literature and Theatre

This edited volume offers a historical, textual and ethnoanthropological exploration of the meaning and value of religion and ritual and their form and function in relation to Chinese literature and theatre. The term ‘theatre’ is used here to refer broadly to various types of live performances—theat...

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Language:English
Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
Subjects:
Cheng 誠
cheng 成
sincerity
completion
religion
ritual
Classical Confucianism
literature
baojuan (precious scrolls)
telling scriptures
scroll recitation
chinese folklore
popular religion
buddhist narrative
China
Xiud Yax Lus Qim (Yalu wang)
Miao (Hmong) ethnic group
oral performance
ritual practice
sorcery and witchcraft
collective memory
cultural heritage
state presence
temple festival
temple theatre
Jiacun Double-Fourth Temple Festival
the Primordial Sovereign of the Morning Clouds (Bixia yuanjun)
Shangdang
Liaozhai zhiyi
Daoism
dramas
Sichuan
willow
Yuan zaju
shamanism
legend
metaphor
Chinese religions
Chinese literature
Ming
Deng Zhimo
hagiography
Lü Dongbin
Xu Xun
Sa Shoujian
print culture
Pei Yue
poems
Buddhism
monks
social association
Miao culture
performance studies
performance ethnography
indigenous studies
folk traditions
mythology
the Queen Mother of the West (Xiwangmu)
Han rhapsody (fu)
Han paintings
Hantomb stone reliefs
the Wuliang Shrine
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