Download or read book Daoist Philosophy and Literati Writings in Late Imperial China written by Zuyan Zhou and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume first explores the transformation of Chinese Daoism in late imperial period through the writings of prominent intellectuals of the times. In such a cultural context, it then launches an indepth investigation into the Daoist dimensions of the Chinese narrative masterpiece, The Story of the Stone—the inscriptions of Quanzhen Daoism in the infrastructure of its religious framework, the ideological ramifications of the Daoist concepts of chaos, purity, and the natural, as well as the Daoist images of the gourd, fish, and bird. Zhou presents the central position of Daoist philosophy both in the ideological structure of the Stone, and the literati culture that engenders it.