The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture

by Glahn Richard von and Richard von Glahn

The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In The Sinister Way, Richard von Glahn examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult within the larger...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520234081
• ISBN13: 9780520234086
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"