
Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China
A Reading of Tai Fu's 'Kuang-i chi'
Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions
Kirjeldus
The remains of Tai Fu's lost collection Kuang-i chi ('The Great Book of Marvels') preserve three hundred short tales of encounters with the other world. This study develops a style of close reading through which those tales give access to the lives of individuals in eighth-century China.
