Crazy Ji Chinese Religion and Popular Literature Book

Table, Maps, and Figures

Preface

Introduction: Religion and Vernacular Fiction in China

Daoji the Man

Daoji the Man

Madness and Power in Chinese Buddhism

Crazy Ji the Fictional Character

Monk and Magician

Clown and Moral Exemplar

Martial Artist and Champion of the Poor

Jigong the God

From Spirit-Possession to Monastic Appropriation

Conclusion: The God's Laughter

Appendixes

Extant Written, and Transcribed Oral, Fiction on Jigong

The Thirty-eight Sequels to the Storyteller's Jigong

Extant Pre-Twentieth-Century Plays on Jigong

Literature on, and by, Jigong Distributed in Taiwanese Temples

Reference Matter

Abbreviations

Notes

Works Cited

Glossary

Index

TABLE, MAPS, AND FIGURES

Table

Some Deities and Some of the Novels in Which They Figure

Maps

Hangzhou sites associated with Daoji's life and his later cult

Location of nineteenth-century Beijing stores that rented out Jigong Drum-Song manuscripts

Figures

Jigong; woodblock print in the 1569 edition of the Recorded Sayings

The Jingci Monastery's well

Vendor's seals on the Jigong Drum-Song manuscript in the Chewang Fu collection

Shop's seal and reader's scribbles on the Jigong Drum-Song manuscript in the Academia Sinica collection

Jigong's statue at the Five-Hundred Arhat Hall, Wuyou Monastery, Leshan, Sichuan

The "Mad Monk" of the Yue Fei saga. Statue, dated igog, at the Five-Hundred Arhat Hall, Wuyou Monastery, Leshan, Sichuan

Jigong in a puppet television serial by Huang Junxiong

Lin Guoxiong as Jigong in a 1980s television serial produced by Yashi Television, Hong Kong

Chen Shengzai as Jigong in a Minghuayuan gezaixi-opera performance, Gaoxiong, Taiwan, August 1989

The spirit-medium Chen Wenshan, in a trance, as Jigong; Pingdong county, southern Taiwan, 198o

An advertisement for a Jigong gambling shrine distributed to pilgrims during the Goddess Mazu's birthday festival, Beigang, Taiwan, April 1987

A Jigong medium in a trance writing numbers for Everybody's Happy bettors, Pingdong County, Taiwan, June 1987

Spirit-writing seance at the Taipei offices of the Association of the Orthodox Religion's Writing and Painting, April 1987

Spirit-writing seance at the Taipei offices of the Association of the Orthodox Religion's Writing and Painting, April 1987

A self-portrait of the god Jigong produced by the automatic spirit-painting technique, at the Taipei offices of the Association of the Orthodox Religion's Writing and Painting

A statue of Jigong in the Five Dragons Mountain-Phoenix Mountain Temple in Gaoxiong County, Taiwan

Jigong's image in the 1987 comic-strip book Jigong gushi (Jigong stories)

Jigong in an early twentieth-century lithographic edition of the Drunken Puti, by the Shanghai publisher Chenhe ji shu

Jigong in an early twentieth-century lithographic edition of the Storyteller's Jigong, by the Shanghai publisher Chenhe ji shu

Jigong's fan in the comic-strip book Jigong gushi (Jigong stories)