A Daoist's encounter with modernity : subsuming western science under a Daoist epistemology in The Story of Eight Immortals Who Attained the Dao
This study of a mid-nineteenth century novel, The Story of Eight Immortals Who Attained the Dao (Baxian dedao zhuan 八仙得道传, 1868), focuses on how the author Wugou daoren 无垢道人 (Immaculate Daoist, fl. 1868) employs the novel form to propagate his religious beliefs and confront Western ideas that were s...
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University of British Columbia
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/55123 |