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Black Magic, White Magic & the Theory of Magic

The Sinister Way

The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture

by Richard von Glahn

A history of Chinese religious culture traced through ambivalent deities, above all the Wutong, demonic gods of wealth in the Jiangnan region. Von Glahn shows how the pursuit of sudden riches, commerce and fear of the uncanny shaped popular religion from the Song to the Qing.

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