The Story of Han Xiangzi
Subtitle: The Alchemical Adventures of a Daoist Immortal (China Program Book)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: March 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780295986906
Subjects: Area / regional studies; Religion & Beliefs; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History: World; South East Asia; Asia - China; Asian; Asian - General; Asian studies; literature; History / China; Religious - General
Description: In this seventeenth-century Chinese novel, Han Xiangzi, best known as one of the Eight Immortals, seeks and achieves immortality ad then devotes himself to converting his materialistic, politically ambitious Confucian uncle--Han Yu, a real historical figure--to Daoism. Written in vernacular prose interspersed with poems and songs, the novel takes its readers across China, to the heavens, and into the underworld. --From publisher's description.