Abstract
This study is made up of five chapters. The purpose of this study is
to analyze sorcery figures and actions in the famous novel title of Ming
Dynasty.
Chapter one presents the studying motivations, the methodology and the scope of
the study and the literature review.
In chapter two are the typological explorations of the sorcery figures in title of
Ming Dynasty as far as their status, personalities, specialties, and religious attributes
are concerned.
Chapter three focuses on sorcerers¡¦ cultural types, and discusses their relations to
Chinese cultures and society. Moreover, the relationship of the sorcerers¡¦ social
status and the sorcerers themselves to the politics and society of the Ming Dynasty has
also been discussed.
Chapter four presents a whole discussion of the sorcery in the Ming Dynasty.
Discussions begin from the definitions of sorcery, then to the analyses
of the types and contents of sorcery in the Ming Dynasty, and finally, by
means of representative figures, to the explorations of the interactive
relationship between sorcery, religion and sorcery figures.
Chapter five concludes the main points of the previous four chapters. Moreover,
also presented in this chapter are the combination of sorcery and sorcerers with the
lives of the people in the Ming Dynasty and the co-existent relationship between
sorcery and Confucianists Buddhism and Taoism
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0115104-160016 |
| Date | 15 January 2004 |
| Creators | Kao, Liu-miao |
| Contributors | none, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0115104-160016 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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