Chün-Fang Yü & Susan Naquin 
Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China 

Until now, China has been scarcely represented in the burgeoning comparative literature on pilgrimage. This volume remedies that omission, discussing the interaction between pilgrims and sacred sites from the tenth century to the present. From the perspectives of literature, art, history, religion, politics, and anthropology, the essays focus on China’s most famous pilgrimage mountains as well as lesser known sites.


This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Until now, China has been scarcely represented in the burgeoning comparative literature on pilgrimage. This volume remedies that omission, discussing the interaction between pilgrims and sacred sites from the tenth century to the present. From the perspec

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Pilgrimage in China

Women Pilgrims to T’ai Shan: Some Pages from a Seventeenth-Century Novel

An Ambivalent Pilgrim to T’ai Shan in the Seventeenth Century

Chang Shang-ying on Wu-t’ai Shan

Relics and Flesh Bodies: The Creation of Ch’an Pilgrimage Sites

P’u-t’o Shan: Pilgrimage and the Creation of the Chinese Potalaka

Huang Shan Paintings as Pilgrimage Pictures

The Pilgrimage to Wu-tang Shan

The Peking Pilgrimage to Miao-feng Shan: Religious Organizations and Sacred Sites

Reading the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall in Peking: The Tribulations of the Implied Pilgrim

Om författaren

Susan Naquin is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Chün-fang Yü is Associate Professor of Religion at Rutgers University.