| 英文摘要 |
This is a research intending to place a particular group of people in medieval China,“xian”(仙, or僊), and their quest for transcendence back into their social settings and to recover the process of social construction of“xian-hood”in the contemporary culture. The author, Robert Company, who is now teaching in the School of Religion at the University of Southern California,∗has long focused on the study of Chinese religious history in the early medieval period and published two monographs in the field: To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth: A Translation and Study of Ge Hong’s Traditions of Divine Transcendents (University of California Press, 2002) and Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China (State University of New York Press, 1996). Continuing his interest in the interrelation between literature, culture and religion shown in the previous two books, Campany in the current one examines the issue of how culture, embodied in various types of narratives and functioning as a“tool-kit,”or“repertoire of resources,”provides both a framework for a religious“role”or“type”and molds one’s perception of religion and one’s religious quest. On the basis of his previous annotated translation of Ge Hong葛洪’s Shenxian zhuan《神仙傳》(Traditions of Divine Transcendents), the present work goes one step further to closely analyze the biographies of these transcendence-seekers and adepts, and the common features shared by them. |
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