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Gods and Demon-Quellers
The Ming compendium of the Chinese pantheon and the comic novel of Zhong Kui's war on the ghosts of human vice — the gods in their own legends, and the queller at his work — in Good Works Translations with their complete Chinese source texts.
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Texts
The Gods of the Three TeachingsThe complete Ming illustrated compendium of the gods of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism — some 130 deity biographies from the Jade Emperor and Guanyin to Mazu, Zhong Kui, and Nezha — translated in full from the Chinese; the first complete Western-language translation known to us.The Tale of Slaying GhostsLiu Zhang's early-Qing comic novel in which Zhong Kui the demon-queller hunts the un-punishable ghosts of human vice — the Windbag, the Pennypinch, the Brazenface — translated complete from the Chinese; the first English translation known to us.