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Jinfen Yan relates the life of a rejected Chinese concubine, Lady Wang, who live approximately during the Song-Jin Period. Lady Wang’s own poem, The Plaint, has only recently been accepted as a classic of Daoist mystical literature. It is a graphic depiction of the unique quest by a Chinese woman of her time who, as a Daoist nun, sought to achieve Immortality. This rare volume combines metaphysics with epistemological enquiry and, ethical self-examination, as well as lyrical poetic expression.
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Yan, J. (2017). An Epic Cry for Autonomy: Philosophical and Ethical Thinking in a Daoist Woman’s Ecstatic Excursions. In: Joy, M. (eds) Women, Religion, and the Gift. Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43189-5_3
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