Table of Contents

List of Plates

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Subjugation of Snake Demons: The Snake Cult and the Hagiography of Goddess Chen Jinggu

Journey of a Goddess: Chen Jinggu Subdues the Snake Demon

Appendix I: Passing through Nanjiao, Pacifying the Demons, and Stabilizing Beijiao

Appendix II: Chen Jinggu Leads an Army to Pacify the Barbarians

Bibliography

About the Author

Fan Pen Li Chen is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Chinese Shadow Theatre: History, Popular Religion, and Women Warriors; Visions for the Masses: Chinese Shadow Plays from Shaanxi and Shanxi; and the editor and translator of Marionette Plays from Northern China, also published by SUNY Press.