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This essay is an overview of the role of Heaven in Daoist religious thought prior to the Tang Dynasty. Lao-Zhuang teachings portray Heaven as helper of the perfected person, who has parted with the human and thereby evinces a heavenly light. The Huainanzi compares possessing Heaven's Heart to leaning on an unbudgeable pillar and drawing on an inexhaustible storehouse, enabling one to shed mere humanity as a snake discards its skin. The Heguanzi homologizes Heaven and Taiyi and by the Six Dynasties period some Daoist canonical sources give the face of Laojun to Heaven/Taiyi, increasing the anthropomorphization of Heaven.

Littlejohn reviews Korean Shamanism: The Cultural Paradox by Chongho Kim.

Littlejohn reviews The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage by Norman J. Girardot.

Littlejohn reviews 'The Democracy of the Dead: Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China' by David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames.