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In this seventeenth-century Chinese novel, Han Xiangzi, best known as one of the Eight Immortals, seeks and achieves immortality and then devotes himself to converting his materialistic, politically ambitious Confucian uncle, Han Yu (a real historical figure), to Daoism. Written in lively vernacular prose interspersed with poems and songs, the novel takes its readers over vast distances across China, to the heavens, and into the underworld. The "Story of Han Xiangzi" uses colourful characters, twists of plot, witty dialogue, and action suitable for a superhero comic book to convey its religious message - that worldly life is ephemeral and that true contentment can be found only through Daoist cultivation. Yang Erzeng (fl. 1590-1602) was a writer and publisher from the city of Hangzhou in southeastern China. Philip Clart is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Prose: non-fiction Literary essays

• Full title: Story of Han Xiangzi
• Subtitle: The Alchemical Adventures of a Daoist Immortal
• Author: Erzeng Yang
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 504
• EAN: 9780295987255
• ISBN: 0295987251
• ID: 04874692
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Weight: 716 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 163 × 31 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. April 2007

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