Daoist Studies Book Reviews

The book review section of the Daoist Studies website aims at providing critical notifications and evaluations of important recent publications on the Daoist tradition. To request review guidelines or to submit review copies of books please contact James Miller.

Index of Reviews

Berkowitz, Alan J. Patterns of Disengagement: The Portrayal and Practice of Reclusion in Early Medieval China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Reviewed by Julius Tsai

Bumbacher, Stephan Peter. The Fragments of the Daoxue zhuan. European University Studies Series XXVII, Asian and African Studies vol. 78. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2000

Reviewed by James Miller

       

Campany, Robert Ford. To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth: A Study of Ge Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents. Daoist Classics 2. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002

Reviewed by Louis Komjathy

Clarke. J. J.The Tao of the West: Transformations of Taoist Thought London: Routledge Press, 2000

Reviewed by Elijah Siegler

       

Cook, Constance and John S. Major, eds. Defining Chu: Image and Reality in Ancient China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999

Reviewed by Louis Komjathy

Cook, Scott, ed. Hiding the World in the World: Uneven Discourses on the Zhuangzi. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003

Reviewed by Eske Møllgaard

       

Csikszentmihalyi, Mark and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds.Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999

Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Richey

Davis, Edward L. Society and the Supernatural in Song China. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001

Reviewed by Louis Komjathy

       

Despeux, Catherine and Livia Kohn. Women in Daoism. Cambridge: Three Pines Press 2003

Reviewed by Sara Elaine Neswald

Eskildsen, Stephen. The Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004

Reviewed by Louis Komjathy

       

Girardot, Norman. The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002

Reviewed by Louis Komjathy

Girardot, Norman, James Miller and Liu Xiaogan, eds. Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape. Cambridge: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, 2001

Reviewed by Ronnie Littlejohn

       

Hoffmann, Hans Peter. Die Welt als Wendung. Zu einer literarischen Lektüre des wahren Buches vom südlichen Blütenland.. Opera Sinologica 13. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2001

Reviewed by Livia Kohn

Hymes, Robert. Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China. Berkeley; University of California Press, 2002

Reviewed by Louis Komjathy

       

Johnson, Jerry Alan. Chinese Medical Qigong Therapy: A Comprehensive Clinical Text. Pacific Grove: International Institute of Medical Qigong, 2000

Reviewed by Livia Kohn

Katz, Paul R. Images of the Immortal: The Cult of Lü Dongbin at the Palace of Eternal Joy. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999

Reviewed by Louis Komjathy

       
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Kirkland, Russell. Taoism: The Enduring Tradition. New York: Routledge 2004.

Reviewed by Gil Raz.

Kleeman, Terry F. Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998

Reviewed by Ronnie Littlejohn

       

Kohn, Livia. Cosmos and Community: The Ethical Dimension of Daoism. Cambridge: Three Pines Press, 2004

Reviewed by Ronnie Littlejohn

Kohn, Livia. Daoism and Chinese Culture. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Three Pines Press, 2004.

Reviewed by Elijah Siegler

       

Kohn, Livia. The Daoist Monastic Manual: A Translation of the Fengdao Kejie. AAR Texts and Translations Series.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2004.

Reviewed by Suzanne Cahill.

Kohn, Livia and Michal LaFargue, eds. Lao-Tzu and the Tao-Te-Ching Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998

Reviewed by Evgeny Torchinov

       

Kohn, Livia and Harold Roth, eds. Daoist Identity: History, Lineage, and Ritual. Hawai'i: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.

Reviewed by Mark Meulenbeld

Little, Stephen, with Shawn Eichman.Taoism and the Arts of China. Chicago/Berkeley: The Art Institute of Chicago/University of California Press, 2000

Reviewed by Louis Komjathy

       

Marshall, S. J. The Mandate of Heaven: Hidden History in the Book of Changes. Curzon Press / Columbia University Press 2001

Reviewed by Stephen L. Field

Miller, James. Daoism: A Short Introduction. Oxford: OneWorld, 2003

Reviewed by Russell Kirkland

       

Pas, Julian F, with Man Kam Leung. Historical Dictionary of Taoism. Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements, no. 18. Lanham (MD): The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1998

Reviewed byLouis Komjathy

Qiao Yun. Taoist Buildings. Translated by Zhou Wenzheng. Wien, Austria: Springer-Verlag Wien New York, 2001

Reviewed by Louis Komjathy

       

Reiter, Florian C. The Aspirations and Standards of Taoist Priests during the T'ang Dynasty. Asien- und Afrika-Studien 1 der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1998

Reviewed by Louis Komjathy

Roth, Harold D. A Companion to Angus C. Graham's Chuang Tzu. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Monograph No. 20. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. Pp. x + 241. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-8248-2643-4

Reviewed by Victor H. Mair

       
The Taoist Canon

Schipper, Kristofer and Franciscus Verellen. The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004 (2005)

Reviewed by Louis Komjathy

Strickmann, Michel. Chinese Magical Medicine. Edited by Bernard Faure. Monographs in Asian Religions and Cultures. Stanford: Stanford University, 2002

Reviewed by SU Jui-lung

       

Unschuld, Paul U. Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: Nature, Knowledge and Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003

Reviewed by Louis Komjathy

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Walf, Knut. Westliche Taoismus-Bibliographie. Essen: Verlag Die Blaue Eule, 2003

Reviewed by Louis Komjathy

       
Beyond Tantra

Wik, Mieke and Stephan Wik. Beyond Tantra: Healing through Taoist Sacred Sex. Forres, Scotland: Findhorn Press 2005.

Reviewed by Livia Kohn

Yu, David C. trans. History of Chinese Daoism Volume I Lanham: University Press of America, 2000

Reviewed by Farzeen Baldrian

       

Ziporyn, Brook. The Penumbra Unbound: The Neo-Taoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003

Reviewed by Livia Kohn