{"product_id":"daoist-modern-xun-liu-9780674033092","title":"Daoist Modern: Innovation, Lay Practice, and the Community of Inner Alchemy in Republican Shanghai","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the Daoist encounter with modernity through the activities of Chen Yingning (1880-1969), a famous lay Daoist master, and his group in early twentieth-century Shanghai. In contrast to the usual narrative of Daoist decay, with its focus on monastic decline, clerical corruption, and popular superstitions, this study tells a story of Daoist resilience, reinvigoration, and revival. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBetween the 1920s and 1940s, Chen led a group of urban lay followers in pursuing Daoist self-cultivation techniques as a way of ensuring health, promoting spirituality, forging cultural self-identity, building community, and strengthening the nation. In their efforts to renew and reform Daoism, Chen and his followers became deeply engaged with nationalism, science, the religious reform movements, the new urban print culture, and other forces of modernity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince Chen and his fellow practitioners conceived of the Daoist self-cultivation tradition as a public resource, they also transformed it from an \"esoteric\" pursuit into a public practice, offering a modernizing society a means of managing the body and the mind and of forging a new cultural, spiritual, and religious identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Xun Liu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674033094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674033092\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.37w x 1.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/04\/2009 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2010","brand":"Xun Liu","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086756688127,"sku":"9780674033092","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2db4563d-7ed2-45a5-a48c-fc6443691b8b.jpg?v=1769096397","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/daoist-modern-xun-liu-9780674033092","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}