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Kleeman, Terry Frederick.

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Wenchang and the Viper: The creation of a Chinese national god.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Wenchang and the Viper: The creation of a Chinese national god./
Author:	Kleeman, Terry Frederick.
Description:	489 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-11, Section: A, page: 3366.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International49-11A.
Subject:	Literature, Asian. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8902157

Wenchang and the Viper: The creation of a Chinese national god.
Kleeman, Terry Frederick.

Wenchang and the Viper: The creation of a Chinese national god. - 489 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-11, Section: A, page: 3366.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1988.

The Book of Transformations is the auto-hagiography of a god best known as Wenchang, the "god of literature." Revealed through spirit writing in 1181, it united in one deity a local thunder god of northern Sichuan once called simply "the Viper" and the constellation thought to control the fates of the scholar-official class. The present dissertation presents a historical study of the development of the cult followed by an annotated translation of the Book of Transformations.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature, Asian.

Wenchang and the Viper: The creation of a Chinese national god.
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520 $a The Book of Transformations is the auto-hagiography of a god best known as Wenchang, the "god of literature." Revealed through spirit writing in 1181, it united in one deity a local thunder god of northern Sichuan once called simply "the Viper" and the constellation thought to control the fates of the scholar-official class. The present dissertation presents a historical study of the development of the cult followed by an annotated translation of the Book of Transformations.
520 $a Chapter one treats the earliest records of the primitive nature deity, tracing his survival into the tenth century. Chapter two examines the process through which Chinese nature deities like the Viper were assigned human identities, in this case a fourth-century hero named Zhang Ezi, then chronicles the imperial patronage accorded this hero god. Chapter three describes how the god of Zitong developed a specialization in foretelling the results of the examinations and how this won him a following among the most influential members of Chinese society. The revelations of the twelfth century, which claimed for the god a Taoist identity as the keeper of the Cinnamon Record of merit and demerit in the constellation Wenchang, are the topic of chapter four. Chapter five sketches the later history of the cult, focusing on the expansion of the cult beyond Sichuan, the official recognition under the Yuan, conservative rejection in the Ming, and the final victory of the cult under the Qing, with the elevation of the god to the rank of Confucius.
520 $a The conclusion proposes a pattern of development from primitive nature spirit to hero god, state god, god of institutionalized religion and, finally, popular, universal deity, and delineates the unitary sacred realm that informs the Book of Transformations. This sixth chapter closes with a consideration of why the national cult to Wenchang should have developed at the time and place it did.
520 $a Chapter seven introduces the textual history of the Book of Transformations. An appendix traces the history of the constellation Wenchang and its worship.
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