Contributors – ix
Acknowledgments – xi
Conventions – xiii

Introduction – 1
Xun Liu and Vincent Goossaert

Part 1. Making Quanzhen Identities

1. Quanzhen, What Quanzhen? Late Imperial Daoist Clerical Identities in Lay Perspective – 19
    Vincent Goossaert

2. The Invention of a Quanzhen Canon: The Wondrous Fate of the Daozang jiyao – 44
    Monica Esposito 

3. A Late Qing Blossoming of the Seven Lotus: Hagiographic Novels about the Qizhen – 78
    Vincent Durand-Dastès

4. Globalizing Daoism at Huashan: Quanzhen Monks, Danwei Politics, and International Dream Trippers – 113
    David A. Palmer

Part 2. Quanzhen Textual and Ritual Productions

5. Quanzhen and Longmen Identities in the Works of Wu Shouyang – 141
    Paul G. G. Van Enckevort 

6. Being Local through Ritual: Quanzhen Appropriation of Zhengyi Liturgy in the Chongkan Daozang jiyao – 171
    Mori Yuria

7. Quanzhen Daoism and Ritual Medicine: A Study of "Thirteen Sections of Zhuyou Medicine from the Yellow Emperor Inscription" – 208
    Fang Ling

Part 3. Quanzhen Daoists and Local Society

8. A Local Longmen Lineage in Late Ming–Early Qing Yunnan – 235

    Richard G. Wang

9. Quanzhen Proliferates Learning: The Xuanmiao Temple, Clerical Activism, and the Modern Reforms in Nanyang, 1880s–1940s – 269
    Xun Liu

10.Temple and Household Daoists: Notes from North China – 308
    Stephen Jones

Bibliography – 335
Index – 369