Complementing the author\'s moving film Li Manshan: Portrait of a Folk Daoist, this engaging and original book describes a hereditary Family of household Daoist Priests based in a poor village in north China.
It traces the vicissitudes of their lives - and ritual practices - over the turbulent last century..
Complementing the author\'s moving film Li Manshan: Portrait of a Folk Daoist, this engaging and original book describes a hereditary Family of household Daoist Priests based in a poor village in north China