Title: The Ming prince and Daoism : institutional patronage of an elite /
Authors: Wang, Richard G.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Taoism and state China History.; Princes Religious life China History.
Abstract: By illuminating the role princes played in local religion during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Richard Wang demonstrates in in this book that the princedom served to mediate between official religious policy and the commoners' interests.
Contents: Ming princes: an overview -- Princely ritual institutions -- Ming princes and Daoist ritual -- Cultivation and book -- Temple patronage -- Literary patronage -- Princely contacts with clerics and fashion of Daoist names -- Multi-faceted princely patronage of a Daoist temple -- Genealogical chart of the Ming emperors and their lines of descent -- Numbers of princes under each emperor.