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Title Gendering Chinese religion : subject, identity, and body / edited by Jinhua Jia, Xiaofei Kang, and Ping Yao.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 300 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Tang women in the transformation of Buddhist filiality / Ping Yao -- Writing oneself into the tradition: the autobiographical sermon of Chan Master Jizong Xingche (b. 1606) / Beata Grant -- Making religion, making the new woman: reading Su Xuelin's autobiographical novel Jixin (Thorny Heart) / Zhange Ni -- The identity of Tan Daoist priestesses / Jinhua Jia -- Revisiting White-haired Girl: women, gender and religion in Communist revolutionary propaganda / Xiaofei Kang -- Negotiating between two patriarchies: Chinese Christian women in postcolonial Hong Kong / Wai Ching Angela Wong -- Birthing the self: metaphor and tranformation in Medieval Daoism / Gil Raz -- Female alchemy: transformation of a gendered body / Elena Valussi -- A religious menopausal ritual: changing body, identity, and values / Neky Tak-ching Cheung.
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Subject Taoist women -- China -- Congresses.
Taoist women.
China.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
RELIGION -- Essays.
RELIGION -- Reference.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Jia, Jinhua, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Gendering Chinese religion 9781438453071 (DLC) 2013044037 (OCoLC)879583681
ISBN 9781438453095 (electronic book)
1438453094 (electronic book)
9781438453071
1438453078