Ancestors and Anxiety

Contents

Acknowledgments....................................................................ix Note on Translation................................................................xi Introduction: The Problem of Rebirth...............................................1 1. Envisioning the Dead............................................................33 2. The Unquiet Dead and Their Families, Political and Agnate.......................60 3. Questionable Shapes: How the Living Interrogated Their Dead.....................95 4. Doomed for a Certain Term: The Intimate Dead....................................130 5. Rebirth Reborn..................................................................158 Postscript.........................................................................193 List of Abbreviations..............................................................199 Bibliography.......................................................................203 Index..................................................................... ... read full excerpt from Ancestors and Anxiety: Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China ebook