The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons – A Seventeenth–Century Novel Fryklund Lewis
The Lady of Linshui Pacifies DemonsA Seventeenth-Century Novel\nAuthor(s): Kristin Ingrid Fryklund, Mark Edward Lewis, Brigitte Baptandier\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295748344, 978-0295748344\nSynopsis\nThe dramatic story of a girl who became a goddess\n The Lady of Linshuithe goddess of women, childbirth, and childhoodis still venerated in south China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. Her story evolved from the life of Chen Jinggu in the eighth century and blossomed in the Ming dynasty [tel] into vernacular short fiction, legends, plays, sutras, and stele inscriptions at temples where she is worshipped. The full-length novel The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons narrates Chen Jinggus lifelong struggle with and eventual triumph over her spirit double and rival, the White Snake demon. Among accounts of goddesses in late imperial China, this work is unique in its focus on the physical aspec.
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