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Taoism and Chinese Religion

The Taoists of Peking, 1800–1949

A Social History of Urban Clerics

by Vincent Goossaert

A social history of the Taoist clergy of Beijing in the late Qing and Republican periods, centred on the Quanzhen White Cloud Temple. Goossaert reconstructs their institutions, careers, patrons and relations with the state.

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