The Sichuan region has long been the focus of Terry Kleeman's work. His first book, A God's Own Tale (SUNY Press, 1994), told the story of the development of a local Sichuanese snake spirit into the national god of literature, Wenchang. In the present book, Kleeman addresses a little-known chapter in the history of Sichuan: its independent statehood in the first half of the fou...(展开全部)

The Sichuan region has long been the focus of Terry Kleeman's work. His first book, A God's Own Tale (SUNY Press, 1994), told the story of the development of a local Sichuanese snake spirit into the national god of literature, Wenchang. In the present book, Kleeman addresses a little-known chapter in the history of Sichuan: its independent statehood in the first half of the fou...(展开全部)

An outstanding compendium of fourteen papers, almost exclusively based on recent anthropological field research in Hong Kong and Taiwan on the diverse Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist beliefs and practices of the Chinese peasant ... This collection is of great value in explicating the structure of the supernatural world as seen by the Chinese peasant, its similarity to the forma...(展开全部)

美国斯坦福大学人类学系、荷兰内梅亨大学教授，被公认为自施坚雅以后海外中国经济社会史研究的中坚学者、著名人类学者。曾获得美国鲁斯基金会资助。

An outstanding compendium of fourteen papers, almost exclusively based on recent anthropological field research in Hong Kong and Taiwan on the diverse Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist beliefs and practices of the Chinese peasant ... This collection is of great value in explicating the structure of the supernatural world as seen by the Chinese peasant, its similarity to the forma...(展开全部)

美国斯坦福大学人类学系、荷兰内梅亨大学教授，被公认为自施坚雅以后海外中国经济社会史研究的中坚学者、著名人类学者。曾获得美国鲁斯基金会资助。