Originally published: Chinese ideas of life and death. Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1982
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Chinese ideas of life and death
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Index
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Four attitudes of mind -- The gods -- The life hereafter -- The order of nature -- The universe and the shape of the heavens -- The earth and its creatures -- The cycle of change -- Omens and miracles -- Divination and oracles -- Shamans and intermediaries -- Services to the dead -- The imperial cults -- Imperial sovereignty -- The purposes of government -- The regulation of man -- The scriptures
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China -- Social life and customs -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D.