9789570250299 (2 items)

Taiwan: National Museum of History, 1999. Hardcover. Fine. 30 x 21.5 cm. Quarto. 242pp. Published on occasion of the exhibition held 22 October through 21 November, 1999. Majority of the text is in Chinese with picture captions also in English. Many color photographs.

Taipei: National Museum of History, 1999. A welcome and valuable addition to the relatively small corpus of works on the art and culture of China's most important indigenous religion, Daoism [Taoism]. Sections on paintings and images of the many gods within the Daoist pantheon, costumes, musical and ritual instruments employed by priests in Daoist ceremony, charms, spells, protective amulets, mythical animals and Daoist scriptures. Text in Chinese with preface and brief captions in English. Front lower corner bumped but otherwise a new, unread copy. 242 pp., over 300 col. plates, essays, chronology, references.. First Edition. Hard bound. New. 30 x 21 cm..