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Gender, Power, and Talent: The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China

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Gender, Power, and Talent: The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China - Jia, Jinhua
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Jinhua Jia draws on a wealth of previously untapped sources to explain how Daoist priestesses marked themselves as a distinct gendered religious and social group. The first comprehensive study of the lives and roles of Daoist priestesses in Tang China, Gender, Power, and Talent restores women to the landscape of Chinese religion and literature.

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Gender, Power, and Talent: The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China 2018, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231184441

Hardcover