Images of the immortal
Subtitle: the cult of Lü Dongbin at the Palace of Eternal Joy
By: Paul R. Katz
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Lü, Tung-pin, -- b. 798; Yung-le kung (Temple : Jui-chʻeng, China); Taoism
Description: "The Palace of Eternal Joy (Yongle gong) is a mammoth cult site dedicated to late imperial China's most popular deity, Lu Dongbin. Paul Katz focuses on the Palace's role in the development of Lu's legend. This approach takes into account the various "histories" of the Palace presented in different texts and surpasses previous scholarship by stressing the ways in which the site both reflected and produced cultural diversity.

Katz breaks new ground by analyzing the texts in terms of the textuality - the process by which they were produced, transmitted, and understood."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-297) and index