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Taoism and Chinese Religion

To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth

A Translation and Study of Ge Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents

by Robert Ford Campany · Robert Ford Campany (trans.)

A translation and study of the Shenxian zhuan attributed to Ge Hong, a collection of biographies of Chinese transcendents. Campany reconstructs the text and analyses the methods and ideals of immortality it records.

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