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Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations.
- Anecdotes from the Area North of Meng (Beimeng suoyan), 10–11
- animals with consciousness, 78–79, 158; transformation of, 17, 70–71, 87, 101
- animating forces, 143–62; and blood, 148, 161; and fire, 144, 157, 161; and life/death, 143
- anomalous accounts (zhiguai), 118–19, 151–52, 165
- Anzheng Tang (publisher), 45, 151, 184n14, 185n15
- apotropaic practices, 40–41, 98–99; and thunder, 60–63; and water, 108–10
- attachment illnesses (zhu), 155–57
- Bencao gangmu. See Systematic Compendium of Materia Medica
- Berlin medical manuscripts, 32–33, 62–63, 81, 108–9
- biji (brush notes), 1–2, 10–12, 53–54, 153, 165–68
- Book of Changes (Yijing), 23, 26, 29–30, 125–28
- Boxer Rebellion, 164–66
- Brokaw, Cynthia, 44
- brush notes (biji), 1–2, 10–12, 53–54, 153, 165–68
- bugs (chong), 19, 68–69; and dragons, 82–83, 101; and gu, 115–17, 119–20; nine dragons bug, 70, 81; and rainbows, 101–2, 104; and thunder, 1, 54–55
- Canonization of the Gods (Fengshen yanyi), 47–48, 58–59
- catalepsy, 145–46
- categories: bibliographic, 12, 14–15; classification of animals, 68–69, 72, 101; of dragons, 68–72; generic, 3–4, 9–12, 14, 71, 167; of knowledge, 8–9; of water, 93–94
- centipedes, 53–54, 117, 120–21
- chong. See bugs
- Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhai jing), 101–2
- Classic of Tea (Cha jing), 91–92
- contagion, 119, 156–57
- corpse qi, 130, 155–57
- corpse worms (sanshi), 44, 117, 119, 126
- corpses 148–55; and thunder marks, 44, 47, 49
- cutting flesh for medicine. See gegu
- death, 145–48; pollution from, 156–57; revival from, 147–53
- demons: attachment by, 155–57; and bugs, 117, 119–21; plague demons, 59–60; and water, 97–100, 113–14
- Dianshizhai Pictorial (Dianshizhai huabao), 42–43, 84–89
- divination, 21–41; emolument and horse method, 31–33; physiognomy, 38–41
- dragons, 18–19, 67–89; and bugs, 54–55, 68–69, 82–83; death/mortality of, 72–77; and drugs from, 73–74, 81–84; and lasciviousness, 67–68, 77–80, 83–84; and laziness, 77–78; and rainbows, 101–4, 106–8; and thunder, 55–56, 64–65; and transformation, 70–73, 86–87
- Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou meng). See Story of the Stone (Shitou ji)
- dreams, 6–7, 14, 29, 87–88
- Du Liniang, 148–50
- gegu (cutting flesh for medicine), 116, 131–42; and Buddhism, 137–38; and doctors, 131–32; and gender, 133, 137–38; liver slicing (gegan), 133–34, 140–41
- ghosts: and corpse attachment, 155–57; and odor, 99–100
- giant clams. See shen
- ginger, 10–11, 154
- ginseng spirits, 164–65
- golden silkworms (jincan), 120–24
- grave robbing, 150
- gu poison (gudu): and bugs, 119–20; and Confucian virtue, 121–24; hedgehogs as cure, 121–22; and licentiousness, 125–30; reanimating life gu, 128–30; and travelers, 122–23
- Guan Yu, 138–40
- Guanyin, 137–38
- heaven: and divination, 38; and thunder justice, 42–55, 65
- Historian of the Strange. See Pu Songling
- History of the Former Han (Hanshu), 85, 124
- History of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguo zhi), 24, 108
- Hua Tuo, 138–40; water method of, 108–11
- Huang Liuhong, 49, 51–52
- human flesh as medicine, 131–42. See also gegu
- hun souls, 144–45; calling back souls, 148–53
- Illustrated Exhortations and Admonishments (Quan jie tushuo), 45–48, 132–33, 151–52
- Illustrated Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety for Women (Nü ershisi xiao tushuo), 133, 134
- information: circulation of, 11–12, 18–19; in entertainment literature, 3–5, 9–11, 14–15, 163–68
- inns, suspicion of, 122–23
- insects. See bugs
- Lam, Ling Hon, 3–4
- legal codes, 118, 124–25
- Li Shizhen: citations by, 9–11, 14–15, 54–55; skepticism of, 15, 63–65
- licentiousness: of dragons, 67–68, 77–80, 83–84; and gu, 125–30; and rainbows, 104
- Lin Daiyu, 27, 90–91
- ling (numinous/spiritual quality), 67–69, 77–78
- liver: and hun souls, 141; slicing (gegan), 133–34, 140–41
- Lunheng. See Wang Chong
- magic: black/sorcery, 98–99, 123–25, 155–59; sympathetic, 117–18, 135–36; water methods, 108–14
- medical manuscripts. See Berlin medical manuscripts
- medicine: and bugs, 82–83, 116–17; and death states, 146–48; and dragons, 73–74, 81–84; elite vs. vernacular, 115–16; and entertainment literature, 10–11, 15–16, 118–19; flesh as, 131–42; and gu poison, 117–22; and thunder, 59–63; and water, 93–97, 108–14
- mercury, 112–13
- Miaoshan, Princess, 137–38
- mirages (shenlou), 85–89
- nature, patterns in, 17–18, 166–67
- newspapers: and anomalous accounts, 43–44, 52; and gegu reports, 140–41; and gu poison, 126–29; and souls returning, 144, 150; and thunder reports, 2–3, 43, 66
- novels: and divination, 21–41; and medical knowledge, 15–16, 163–65; sequels to, 163–65. See also xiaoshuo; and specific titles
- numinousness. See ling
- Pan Jinlian, 35–36, 38, 158–59
- paper figures (zhiren), 158–62
- parasites. See bugs
- Peking Gazette (Jingbao), 140
- Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting), 148–50
- Perceptions (Yuewei caotang biji). See Ji Yun
- physiognomy, 36–41
- Plum in the Golden Vase (Jin ping mei), 14–16, 30–41, 158–59
- po souls, 113, 144–45, 154–55, 161, 166. See also hun souls
- poison. See gu poison
- practical texts, 8–9, 19–20, 115–16
- prognostication. See divination
- Pu Songling (Historian of the Strange), 17, 58, 78, 80, 147
- saliva, 100–101, 119–20
- sequels, 4, 12–14, 163
- sexual excess/licentiousness, 67, 78–80, 126–31
- sha (demon), 47, 48, 123
- shamans (wu), 40, 108, 123, 151
- shen (dragon-clam), 85–89, 89
- Shen Gua, 85–86, 102–3
- Shenbao (newspaper), 80–84, 127–29
- Shenbaoguan (publisher), 163–64
- sorcery, 155–60
- Story of the Stone (Shitou ji), 25, 29–30, 90–91, 151, 152, 160
- Strange Stories from Liaozhai (Liaozhai zhiyi), 13, 15, 99, 146
- Supplement to the Systematic Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao gangmu shiyi), 81–84, 112–13
- Systematic Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao gangmu), 9–17, 81–83, 93–97, 130–33, 146–50, 155–57
- Wang Chong, 56–57, 63–64
- Wang Tingxiang, 64–65
- water, 18–19, 71–72; connoisseurship of, 90–94; demons and, 97–101; different types of, 90–97; methods (shuifa), 108–14; as space-time, 94–97
- weather, 3, 18, 23–24, 67, 70
- Wei Zhongxian, 52–53, 185n32
- What the Master Did Not Discuss (Zibuyu), 75, 113
- witchcraft, 116, 118–19, 123–27
- writing/written word, 18–19, 22, 42–43, 97–98
- Wuzazu. See Five Miscellanies