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A work on Chinese concepts of the afterlife. It explores how Chinese authors, including Daoists and non-Buddhists, received and deployed ideas about rebirth from the third to the sixth centuries CE. In tracing the antecedents of these scriptures, it presents non-Buddhist accounts that provide detail on the realms of the dead.

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Acknowledgments Note on Translation Introduction: The Problem of Rebirth 1. Envisioning the Dead 2. The Unquiet Dead and Their Families, Political and Agnate 3. Questionable Shapes: How the Living Interrogated Their Dead 4. Doomed for a Certain Term: The Intimate Dead 5. Rebirth Reborn Postscript List of Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 04/02/2009
      ISBN13: 9780520259881, 978-0520259881
      ISBN10: 0520259882
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A work on Chinese concepts of the afterlife. It explores how Chinese authors, including Daoists and non-Buddhists, received and deployed ideas about rebirth from the third to the sixth centuries CE. In tracing the antecedents of these scriptures, it presents non-Buddhist accounts that provide detail on the realms of the dead.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Note on Translation Introduction: The Problem of Rebirth 1. Envisioning the Dead 2. The Unquiet Dead and Their Families, Political and Agnate 3. Questionable Shapes: How the Living Interrogated Their Dead 4. Doomed for a Certain Term: The Intimate Dead 5. Rebirth Reborn Postscript List of Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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