A History of Daoism and the Yao People of South China
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Table of Contents

Foreword

xiii

Acknowledgments

xix

Introduction

1

The Discovery of Yao Daoism

1

The Dao among the Yao Revisited

2

Yao Daoism Before Liberation

5

The Context of Strickmann’s Argument

12

Daoism and Sinification

14

The Significance and Plan of the Present Work

17

Part I: Yao

21

Chapter One: Genealogy of a Label: Center and Periphery

23

Introduction

23

The Jade Radical and Allusions to Immortal Realms

25