Daoism and Literature

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Bibliography

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Fokkema, Douwe. “Chinese Philosophers and Writers Constructing Their Own Utopias.” Perfect Worlds: Utopian Fiction in China and the West. Amsterdam University Press, 2011. 165-194.

Ho, Peng Yoke. Explorations in Daoism: Medicine and Alchemy in Literature. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Kroll, Paul W. Studies in Medieval Taoism and the Poetry of Li Po. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.

Leonard, John. The Way of Poetry. Dunedin, FL: Three Pines Press, 2010.

Li, Zehou and Maija Bell Samei. The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2010.

Meulenbeld, Mark R.E. Demonic Warfare: Daoism, Territorial Networks, and the History of a Ming Novel. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2015.

Morris, Christopher D. The Figure of the Road: Deconstructive Studies in Humanities Disciplines. New York: Peter Lang, 2007.

Pettit, J.E.E. and Chang, Chao-Jan, eds. A Library of Clouds: the Scripture of the Immaculate Numen and the Rewriting of Daoist Texts. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2020.

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Stalling, Jonathan. Poetics of Emptiness: Transformations of Asian Thought in American Poetry. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010.

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Zirkova, Zornica. Roaming into the Beyond: Representations of Xian Immortality in Early Medieval Chinese Verse. Boston: Brill, 2016.

Also of interest:

Versulis, Arthur. American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.