Richard G. Wang, Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks. Daoism and Local Society in Ming China, Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 132, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022.
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$65.00 • £52.95 • €58.50
ISBN 9780674270961
Publication Date: 10/18/2022
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410 pages
6 x 9 inches
1 photo, 2 colorphotos, 9 illus., 1 color illus., 6 maps, 2 tables
Harvard University Asia Center > Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
Related Subjects
History: Asia: China
Religion: Taoism (see also Philosophy: Taoist)
History: Social History
About This Book
Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks explores the key role played by elite Daoists in social and cultural life in Ming China, notably by mediating between local networks—biological lineages, territorial communities, temples, and festivals—and the state. They did this through their organization in clerical lineages—their own empire-wide networks for channeling knowledge, patronage, and resources—and by controlling central temples that were nodes of local social structures.
In this book, the only comprehensive social history of local Daoism during the Ming largely based on literary sources and fieldwork, Richard G. Wang delineates the interface between local organizations (such as lineages and temple networks) and central state institutions. The first part provides the framework for viewing Daoism as a social institution in regard to both its religious lineages and its service to the state in the bureaucratic apparatus to implement state orthodoxy. The second part follows four cases to reveal the connections between clerical lineages and local networks. Wang illustrates how Daoism claimed a universal ideology and civilizing force that mediated between local organizations and central state institutions, which in turn brought meaning and legitimacy to both local society and the state.
About the Author
Richard G. Wang is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies and Religious Studies, University of Florida.
王崗（Richard G. Wang），美國芝加哥大學東亞系博士，佛羅里達大學語言文學文化系、宗教系終身教授，校聘教授，復旦大學古籍所兼職教授，從事明代道教、歷史文化及文學研究，著有Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks. Daoism and Local Society in Ming China（嵌於廟宇網絡的法派/宗族：明代道教與地方社會，2022）、The Prince and Daoism: Institutional Patronage of an Elite（明代藩王與道教：王朝精英的制度化護教，2012；中譯本，上海古籍出版社，2018）、Ming Erotic Novellas: Genre, Consumption, and Religiosity in Cultural Practice（明代豔情傳奇小說：文化操作中的文體、消費與宗教性，香港中文大學出版社，2011）、《浪漫情感與宗教精神——晚明文學與文化思潮》（香港天地圖書公司，1999），整理有《茅山志》（上海古籍出版社，2016），主編有《中國近世地方社會中的宗教與國家》（和李天綱合作，復旦大學出版社，2014）。
王崗教授曾于2013年9月至2014年3月在复旦大学中华文明国际研究中心从事访问研究。
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