Ge Hong

**Ge Hong** (kinesisk: 葛洪, pinyin: *Gě Hóng*, W.-G.: *Ko Hung*; 284–364), også kjent under stilnavnet **Zhichuan** (稚川, *Zhì chuān*), var en lavere embetsmann under Jindynastiet. Han var daoist, lege, alkymist og udødelighetssøker.
## Liv og virke
Selv om han tidvis virket i militæret som rådgiver og lignende tok han alltid en viss distanse til det verdslige og han var i perioder eneboer. Han skrev innenfor flere felt, men er mest kjent for sine taoistiske verk og diverse skrifter om alkymi.

Som den lege han var forfattet Ge Hong også medisinske verker. Han gir den historisk første bevarte beskrivelse av papegøyesyke og av kopper.

## Litteratur

*Campany, Robert Ford. *To Live As Long As Heaven and Earth: Ge Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents*. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002
*Davis, Tenney and Ch’en Kuo-fu. "The Inner Chapters of *Pao-p’u-tzu*." *Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences* 74 (1941): 297–325.
*Fang Xuanling, et al. *Jin shu* (History of the Jin Dynasty). 10 vols. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1998
*Feifel, Eugene. "Pao-p’u tzu nei-p’ien." *Monumenta Serica* 6 (1941): 113–211; 9 (1944): 1–33; 11 (1946): 1–32. [chaps. 1–4 and 11]
*Giles, Lionel. *A Gallery of Chinese Immortals*. London: John Murray, 1948.
*Hausen, Johan and Tsaur, Allen. *The Arts of Daoism*. Auckland: Purple Cloud Press, 2021
*Hu Fuchen. *Baopuzi neipian yanjiu* (Research on the Inner Chapters of The Master Embracing Simplicity). Beijing: Xinhua chubanshe, 1991
*Obed Simon Johnson, *A Study of Chinese Alchemy*, Shanghai, Commercial, 1928. rpt. New York: Arno P, 1974.
*Lin Lixue. *Baopuzi nei wai pian sixiang xi lun* (An Analysis of the Thought of the Inner and Outer Chapters of The Master Embracing Simplicity). Taipei: Xuesheng, 1980.
*Penny, Benjamin. "The Text and Authorship of Shenxian zhuan". Journal of Oriental Studies 34 (1996): 165–209.
*Ren Jiyu, ed. *Zhongguo daojiao shi* (A History of Chinese Daoism). Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 1997.
*Robinet, Isabelle. *Histoire du taoïsme*
*Robinet, Isabelle. *Daoism: Growth of a Religion*, translated by Phyllis Brooks. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
*Sailey, Jay. *The Master Who Embraces Simplicity: A study of the philosopher Ko Hung, A.D. 283-343*. San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center. 1978. 
*Sivin, Nathan. "On the Pao P’u Tzu Nei Pien and the Life of Ko Hong (283-343)". Isis 60 (1976): 388–391.
*Sivin, Nathan. "On the Word ‘Daoist’ as a Source of Perplexity". History of Religions 17(1978): 303–330.
*Tang Yijie. *Wei Jin Nan Bei Chao shiqi de daojiao* (Daoism in the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties Era). Taipei: Dongda tushu gongsi yinhang, 1991
*Wang Liqi. *Ge Hong lun* (A Discussion of Ge Hong). Taipei: Wunan tushu chubanshe, 1997.
*Ware, James R. *Alchemy, Medicine and Religion in the China of A.D. 320: The* Nei Pien* of Ko Hung*.  Mineola, NY: Dover. 1981. 
*Wells, Matthew. "Self as Historical Artifact: Ge Hong and Early Chinese Autobiography". Early Medieval China 9 (2003): 71–103.
*Wong, Eva. *Teachings of the Tao*. Boston: Shambhala, 1997. (96–104)
*Wu Lu-ch’iang and Tenney Davis. "An Ancient Chinese Alchemical Classic. Ko Hung on the Gold Medicine and on the Yellow and the White." *Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences* 70 (1935): 221–84. [chaps. 4 and 16]

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