Daoists, the Imperial Cult of Sage-Kings, and Mongol Rule
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Published:2020-09-04
Issue:3-4
Volume:106
Page:309-357
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ISSN:0082-5433
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Container-title:T’oung Pao
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Short-container-title:T’oung Pao
Affiliation:
1. National University of Singapore
Abstract
Abstract
This article demonstrates the central position that Daoists occupied in the representations of state power in north China under Mongol rule. In the mid-thirteenth century, Daoist Master Jiang Shanxin and his disciples, under Khubilai Khan’s patronage, actively rebuilt several temples of Confucian sage-kings in southern Shanxi province. Jiang Shanxin’s lineage was a product of dynamic interactions between the Mongol conquerors and local Chinese Daoists in which the two found common ground in sage-kings worship that had served to strengthen imperial legitimacy in previous dynasties. The strong Mongol-Daoist alliance in reordering the empire’s ritual space resulted in not just the revival of but also the creation of new ritual precedents for the Chinese imperial cult of sage-kings.
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science,Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,History,Language and Linguistics,Cultural Studies
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