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The Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun (Translations from the Asian Classics)
The Resurrected Skeleton From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun - Translations from the Asian Classics
Author: Wilt L. Idema
The Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi (369--286 B.C.E.) encountered a skull that later in a dream praises the pleasures of death over the toil of living. This anecdote became popular with poets in the second and third centuries and found renewed significance with the founders of Quanzhen Daoism. These philosophers turned the skull into a skeleton, a ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780231165044
ISBN-10: 0231165048
Publication Date: 6/10/2014
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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