1st Edition
Believing in Ghosts and Spirits The Concept of Gui in Ancient China
1. The Preliminary Understanding of Gui 2. The Original Meaning of the Character Gui: An Examination of Jiaguwen and Jinwen 3. What's in a Character? Definition and Variegated Characteristics of Gui in the Zuozhuan and Liji 4. Confucian, Daoist, and Mohist Perspectives on the Concept of Gui 5. Folk-oriented Usages of Gui in the Rishu Manuscript. Conclusion. Appendix I: Table of the Radical Gui and Its Related Characters. Appendix II: Gui-related Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Appendix III: Investigations: Annotated Translation of the "Jie” 詰 Section. Bibliography. Index with Glossary.
Biography
Anthony Hu (Hu Baozhu 胡寳柱) received his M.Div. in 2009 and M.A. in Theology in 2010, both at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He took up his studies in Sinology at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich in the fall of 2011 and passed his Ph.D. exam in February 2018. Since May 2018, he works in the editorial office of the Monumenta Serica Institute.
His main research areas include popular religions and culture in China, demonology, communications and cultural exchanges between the West and East, and Christian missions in the period of Ming-Qing.
