Chinese early histories, god-lore and demon-quelling, Buddhist and popular devotion, salvationist scripture, folklore, and body-cultivation writing, with source-facing translations, in the Good Works Library.
Folders
Buddhist and Popular Devotion — Chinese Buddhist narrative, devotional, ritual, and popular-performance texts, including the precious-scroll tradition. (1)
Early Histories — The earliest Chinese historical writing — the Book of Documents, the Zuo Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, the Discourses of the States, the Lost Book of Zhou, the Bamboo Annals, the Travels of King Mu, the Strategies of the Warring States, and Sima Qian's Records — in Good Works Translations with their complete classical Chinese source texts. (52)
Folklore — Chinese folklore studies and collections preserved with compiler, colonial, source-community, and illustration boundaries made explicit. (3)
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. (2)
Religious History — Historical studies of Chinese religious history, ritual, institutions, and traditions, read alongside Chinese sources and living communities. (2)
Glossary — A shelf-specific glossary starter for the Chinese shelf.
Introduction to Chinese Religion — A source-rich introduction to Chinese religion as a grammar of relation: ancestors, Heaven, state rite, gods, ghosts, the Three Teachings, popular practice, redemptive societies, body cultivation, and the present Good Works Chinese shelf.
Reader's Guide to Chinese — A source-specific guide to the Chinese shelf through precious-scroll performance, Guanyin devotion, Luodao scripture, historical folklore, religious classification, and Yiquan body practice.