Han Dynasty Views on Life and Death

Author: Yu Ying-shih
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: The title of this book is derived from the same-named doctoral dissertation by Professor Yu at Harvard University in 1962. It also includes a book review and an essay on the same theme. It covers "The View of Life and Death in the Eastern Han Dynasty," "New Evidence for the Early Chinese Concept of the Afterlife—A Review of The Way to Paradise: The Chinese Quest for Immortality by John Knoblock," and "The Soul Shall Return!—On the Transformation of Chinese Concepts of the Soul and the Afterlife Before the Introduction of Buddhism."