Roaming into the Beyond : Representations of Xian Immortality in Early Medieval Chinese Verse

Abstract

This book examines representations of Daoist xian immortality in a broad range of versified literature from the Han until the end of the Six Dynasties and explores the complex interaction between poetry and Daoist religion in early medieval China.

Keywords

• Early medieval China
• Han dynasty, Six Dynasties
• literature
• court poetry
• youxian
• "roaming into immortality"
• immortal
• transcendence
• Daoism
• Daoist religion