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Aux Portes Du Ciel. La Statuaire Taoiste Du Hunan: Art Et Anthropologie de la Chine

Aux Portes Du Ciel. La Statuaire Taoiste Du Hunan: Art Et Anthropologie de la Chine

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Series: Romans, Essais, Poesie, Documents

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ISBN10: 2251444513
ISBN13: 9782251444512
Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
Published: Jan 14 2014
Pages: 656
Weight: 5.02
Height: 1.50 Width: 8.30 Depth: 10.90
Language: French
English summary: This book is the fruit of a survey carried out in China's Hunan Province that lasted more than ten years. Its starting point was the discovery, in a southern Chinese market, of several statues made of polychrome wood which contained consecration documents, some of which indicated that they concerned Taoist masters. They mentioned the date they were made, the names of the figures represented and those of the individuals commissioning them, the location of the statues, the reasons they had been created, the vows associated with the worship, and many other details about the local history. Countless sojourns in the centre of Hunan Province gradually brought answers to the various enigmas raised by the extensive corpus of devotional documents accompanying some two thousand statues, most of which dated from the last Manchu Dynasty (1644-1911). Not only had no one ever encountered statuary of this type in any other part of China, but this southern Hunan Province contained a very high number of Taoist Masters and sculptors who were perpetuating this very ancient tradition. Thanks to them, it was possible to assemble the pieces of a very complex puzzle attesting to a system of beliefs that had its roots in Chinese Antiquity and was highly reminiscent of the cult of the immortals Laozi and Zhuangzi.

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