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Chinese Alchemy in the Persée Portal

Persée is a free collection of journal articles published in France. It contains at present about 90,000 articles, mostly in French, but also in English and other languages. It is in some ways the French response to JSTOR , with the important difference that access is free and open to everybody: "Anyone and everyone may search, browse, and consult the documents dissiminated via the Persée portal, without restrictions, free of charge." The collection contains these articles on Chinese alchemy: • "Inner Alchemy: Notes on the Origin and Use of the Term Neidan ," Farzeen Baldrian-Hussein • "Taoist Beliefs in Literary Circles of the Sung Dynasty: Su Shi (1037-1101) and his Techniques of Survival," Farzeen Baldrian-Hussein • "Lü Tung-pin in Northern Sung Literature," Farzeen Baldrian-Hussein • "Le corps, champ spatio-temporel, souche d'identité," Catherine Despeux (in my opinion, the best survey of the Chinese and Taoist views o...

Daoist Culture Centre Database

I hadn't seen the website of the Fung Ying Seen Koon in Hong Kong for quite a long time. Their "Daoist Culture Centre Database" is now arranged in Wiki format, with many entries available both in Chinese and in English. The English translations are often problematic, but the website as a whole provides a good overview of Taoism as seen in present-day China. There are several entries on alchemy in the section "Religious Practise". The website is here: English: FYSK Daoist Culture Centre Database http://en.daoinfo.org Chinese:  道教文化中心資料庫 http://zh.daoinfo.org