The Sinister Way
Subtitle: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: April 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780520234086
Subjects: History; History: American; Eastern - General; Religion - World Religions; ASIA; USA; Religion; Asia - General; History / General; Demonology; General; China
First sentence: Although only dimly perceived before the advent of modern archaeology, the Shang kingdom, which ruled over the North China Plain in the late second millennium B.C.E. (ca. 1700-ca. 1045 B.C.E.), is now recognized as the progenitor of many basic features of Chinese religious culture.
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