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Guan YuBarend ter Haar
Guan Yu
The Religious Afterlife of a Failed Hero
- First published2017
- TraditionTaoism & Chinese Religion
- Shelf119 books
A history of the cult of Guan Yu from a general who died in defeat to one of China's most widely worshipped gods. Ter Haar argues that the cult grew from oral traditions about a powerful demonic spirit before literature and the state reshaped his image.
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