In this volume an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the social history and anthropology of Daoism from the late nineteenth century to the present, focusing on the evolution of traditional forms of practice and community, as well as modern reforms and reinventions both within China and on the global stage. Essays investigate ritual specialists, body cultivation and meditation traditions, monasticism, new religious movements, state-sponsored institutionalization, and transnational networks.

Daoism in the Twentieth Century (New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society) (Volume 2)

History

Palmer, David A.

Dean, Kenneth

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Guangchun, Fan

Asia

University of California Press

This 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. 
Between 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. 
Since 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.

Daoist Modern: Innovation, Lay Practice, and the Community of Inner Alchemy in Republican Shanghai (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Harvard University Asia Center

A little girl with a vivid imagination ventures into the garden after it has rained and discovers its beauty. Full of imagination, she enjoys a stroll and encounters many of the creatures that call the garden home. A smartly dressed earthworm, the lazy sun, a shy raccoon, a dancing butterfly. There is so much for her to see. This beautifully illustrated story will make readers appreciate the small wonders of nature.

As If... As If...

Children's Books

Qin, Wenjun

Science, Nature & How It Works

Starfish Bay Children's Books

Yi is a hardworking boy just like his busy parents, who run their own noodle shop. The morning commute to the shop requires them to wake up early, and they only return home when it's late at night. On the weekends too, Yi accompanies his parents to the shop. Although he's a typical young child who dislikes homework and wants to play with friends, Yi is also devoted to helping his parents be successful. This is a simple story of a day in the life of Yi.

The Noodle Shop

Growing Up & Facts of Life

The most popular Chinese textbook in history is still available, in a total of six volumes, two exercise books, and four sets of audio tapes. This comprehensive language course with a vocabulary exceeding 3000 words is widely used at the secondary and university level.

Vocabulary List Key to Exercise for Practical Chinese Reader (English and Chinese Edition)

Reference

The Commercial Press, Ltd.

Hegemony (The Establishment of New Order in Spring and Autumn Period) (2 Volumes) (Chinese Edition)

Zhonghua Book Company

HSK EXAM OUTLINE TWO (2015)(CHINESE EDITION)

PEP BEIJING

西塞罗曰：古典拉丁语基础语法及英语单词前后缀的“前世今生”

清华大学出版社

Language:Chinese.HardCover. Pub Date: 2014-3-7 Publisher: Chinese Welfare Association Publishing small niu incisors out. Her grandfather said. out of the front teeth to quickly throw it on the roof. so that future child to grow taller. But my grandfather was not home. so niu decided to look for him alone. Niu walking in the alley. is not afraid. because she knew everyone in the alley. the alley is a big family. She found a grandfather. grandfather while walking home holding niu. while telling her: alley their lives torn down soon. there will built a new large buildings. like the teeth out niu will grow Like new teeth. it would be another life ......

Toss the Tooth to Roof (Chinese Edition)

China Welfare Association Press

Riddles (Chinese Edition)

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