| Title | Generals, Pigs, and Immortals: Views and Uses of History in Chinese Morality Books |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2005 |
| Authors | Philip Clart |
| Journal | Journal of Ritual Studies |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pagination | 99-113 |
| ISSN | 08901112 |
| Abstract | Based on notions of history as cultural memory, this article examines the religious literature composed in spirit-writing séances as an attempt to create a past within the present, thereby bridging the cultural ruptures caused by modernity. Figures of memory constituting a normative past are brought into the present not just through narration, but through their actualization in the context of the séance(1). |
| Short Title | Generals, Pigs, and Immortals |