![]() | Demonic Warfare: Daoism, Territorial Networks, and the History of a Ming Novel Subjects: Chinese fiction -- Ming dynasty 1368–1644 -- History and criticism; Feng shen yan yi; Taoism in literature; Demonology in literature; Ritual in literature; Revealing the fundamental continuities that exist between vernacular fiction and exorcist, martial rituals in the vernacular language, Mark Meulenbeld argues that a specific type of Daoist exorcism helped shape vernacular novels in the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Focusing on the once famous novel Fengshen yanyi ("Canonization of the Gods"), the author maps out the general ritual structure and divine protagonists that it borrows from much older systems of Daoist exorcism. Meulenbeld Mark R. E. : Mark R. E. Meulenbeld is assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he teaches Chinese religion with a focus on Daoism. |
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