Reading the 'Inner Biography of the Perfected Person of Purple Solarity': Religion and Society in an Early Daoist Hagiography Winer of the royal asiatic society's professor mary boyce award

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One of the first copies of The Legends of the Saints had a reception I was far from expecting. The friend who had received the complimentary copy informed me that he would put the book in his library, but that he would never read it. "What do you expect?"