Visions and Dreams in Early and Medieval China: A Few Thoughts on Neutrality and Authorial Voice

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Notes

1 Huanzhen ji 還真集 (DZ 1074), 2.8a–9a.

2 For a similar argument, which frames visionary practices as a type of “reality shifting,” to borrow a more contemporary term, see Dominic Steavu, “The Marvelous Fungus and The Secret of Divine Immortals,” Micrologus 26 (2018): 353–83, esp. 376–79.

3 The convincing argument unfolds on pp. 118–24.

4 Barbara Cassin, Éloge de la traduction—Compliquer l’universel (Paris: Fayard, 2016).

5 See Matthew Reynolds, ed., Prismatic Translation (Cambridge: Legenda, 2019).

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Dominic Steavu

Dominic Steavu is Associate Professor in Religious Studies and in East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His primary field of research is the history of Daoism and Chinese Buddhism, with a focus on the history of medicine.