The December 2007 symposium drew 14 scholars from China, Europe, and the US, who have elaborated their presentations into full articles for this anthology. Among their topics are Daoist connections in
Participants came to the June 2011 symposium from Germany, England, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and the US. The 12 articles represent most of the long lectures that generated the days of conversation. T
Reiter selects representative texts that describe the underlying, common theoretical notions and also the practical approaches he uses to examine the content and intention of the exorcist Taoism of
Reiter (Chinese studies, Humboldt U., Germany) presents the 13 papers given at the 2005 second international conference on Daoism held at the Seminar für Sinologie of Humboldt U. in Germany. The openi