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Article: David C. Yu, translator. History of Chinese Daoism, Volume 1.(Book review)
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- China Review International
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- September 22, 2006
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David C. Yu, translator. History of Chinese Daoism, Volume 1. Lanham, MD; New York; Oxford: University Press of America, Inc., 2000. xxii, 611 pp. Hardcover $62.00, ISBN 0-7618-1868-5.
Until recently there were only a few book chapters and journal articles in English that even breached the subject of the history of Chinese Daoism. Two previous works that attempted to fill the void concerning the history of Daoism were Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Early Daoist Scriptures (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997) and Isabelle Robinet, Taoism: Growth of a Religion (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997). David Yu's translation of volume 1 of this four-volume ...