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...