{"product_id":"to-live-as-long-as-robert-f-campany-9780520230347","title":"To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth: A Translation and Study of GE Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents Volume 2","description":"In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and thus transcend death. Narratives of their achievements circulated widely. Ge Hong (283-343 c.e.) collected and preserved many of their stories in his \u003ci\u003eTraditions of Divine Transcendents, \u003c\/i\u003eaffording us a window onto this extraordinary response to human mortality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Ford Campany's groundbreaking and carefully researched text offers the first complete, critical translation and commentary for this important Chinese religious work, at the same time establishing a method for reconstructing lost texts from medieval China. Clear, exacting, and annotated, the translation comprises over a hundred lively, engaging narratives of individuals deemed to have fought death and won. Additionally, \u003ci\u003eTo Live as Long as Heaven and Earth \u003c\/i\u003esystematically introduces the Chinese quest for transcendence, illuminating a poorly understood tradition that was an important source of Daoist religion and a major social, cultural, and religious phenomenon in its own right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert F. Campany\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520230345\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520230347\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.36w x 1.68d","brand":"Robert F. Campany","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44128478003455,"sku":"9780520230347","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5b4c1030-7326-4c88-907d-0e73d29d1f5f.jpg?v=1687458860","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/to-live-as-long-as-robert-f-campany-9780520230347","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}