This book combines historical and ethnographic methodologies to explore changes that occurred during the interaction between Miao ritual traditions and Daoism. In addition, it explores how gender and ethnicity have shaped such processes, and what these phenomena can teach about larger questions of modern Chinese history. The data presented reveal that the interaction between Han and non-Han religious cultures was characterized by both the deliberate transmission of doctrine and liturgy plus the persistence of indigenous beliefs and practices, a phenomenon I define as “trans-hybridity”. This study also endeavors to transcend previous scholarship that has stressed the impact of state policies and elite agendas, focusing instead on the roles played by ritual specialists. Such findings call into question conventional wisdom about the “standardization” of Chinese culture, the village quartet, temple-centric society, etc.

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