Table of Contents

Prologue ; Chapter One: Ming Princes: An Overview ; Chapter Two: Princely Ritual Institutions ; Chapter Three: Ming Princes and Daoist Ritual ; Chapter Four: Cultivation and Book ; Chapter Five: Temple Patronage ; Chapter Six: Literary Patronage ; Chapter Seven: Princely Contacts with Clerics and Fashion of Daoist Names ; Epilogue: The Multi-faceted Princely Patronage of a Daoist Temple ; Appendix A: Genealogical Chart of the Ming Emperors and Their Lines of Descent ; Appendix B: The numbers of princes under each emperor ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

About the Author

Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Florida

Reviews

A work of outstanding erudition... Richard Wang's The Ming Prince and Daoism will probably become required reading for future research on Chinese religion in general.
*The Journal of Asian Studies*