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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Clarke. J. J.The Tao of the West: Transformations of Taoist Thought London: Routledge Press, 2000 Reviewed by Elijah Siegler |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Davis, Edward L. Society and the Supernatural in Song China. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001 Reviewed by Louis Komjathy |
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Despeux, Catherine and Livia Kohn. Women in Daoism. Cambridge: Three Pines Press 2003 Reviewed by Sara Elaine Neswald |
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Eskildsen, Stephen. The Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004 Reviewed by Louis Komjathy |
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Girardot, Norman. The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002 Reviewed by Louis Komjathy |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Johnson, Jerry Alan. Chinese Medical Qigong Therapy: A Comprehensive Clinical Text. Pacific Grove: International Institute of Medical Qigong, 2000 Reviewed by Livia Kohn |
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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. |
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Kleeman, Terry F. Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998 Reviewed by Ronnie Littlejohn |
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Kohn, Livia. Cosmos and Community: The Ethical Dimension of Daoism. Cambridge: Three Pines Press, 2004 Reviewed by Ronnie Littlejohn |
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Kohn, Livia. Daoism and Chinese Culture. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Three Pines Press, 2004. Reviewed by Elijah Siegler |
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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. |
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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 |
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Kohn, Livia and Harold Roth, eds. Daoist Identity: History, Lineage, and Ritual. Hawai'i: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. Reviewed by Mark Meulenbeld |
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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 |
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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 |
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Miller, James. Daoism: A Short Introduction. Oxford: OneWorld, 2003 Reviewed by Russell Kirkland |
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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 |
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Qiao Yun. Taoist Buildings. Translated by Zhou Wenzheng. Wien, Austria: Springer-Verlag Wien New York, 2001 Reviewed by Louis Komjathy |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Strickmann, Michel. Chinese Magical Medicine. Edited by Bernard Faure. Monographs in Asian Religions and Cultures. Stanford: Stanford University, 2002 Reviewed by SU Jui-lung |
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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 |
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Wik, Mieke and Stephan Wik. Beyond Tantra: Healing through Taoist Sacred Sex. Forres, Scotland: Findhorn Press 2005. Reviewed by Livia Kohn |
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Yu, David C. trans. History of Chinese Daoism Volume I Lanham: University Press of America, 2000 Reviewed by Farzeen Baldrian |
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Ziporyn, Brook. The Penumbra Unbound: The Neo-Taoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003 Reviewed by Livia Kohn |
































