Xiuzhen (Immortality Cultivation) Fantasy: Science, Religion, and the Novels of Magic/Superstition in Contemporary China
In early twenty-first-century China, online fantasy is one of the most popular literary genres. This article studies a subgenre of Chinese fantasy named xiuzhen 修真 (immortality cultivation), which draws on Daoist alchemy in particular and Chinese religion and culture in general, especially that whic...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2020]
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Religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 1 |
Further subjects: | B
internet literature
B Xiuzhen (immortality cultivation) B Fantasy B Religion B Science B magic / superstition |
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