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Biographies of Divine Immortals
Ge Hong, alchemist and Daoist master, collected the lives of the immortals: Pengzu who lived eight hundred years, Guangchengzi who taught the Yellow Emperor, Lady Magu who saw the eastern sea turn three times to mulberry fields, and dozens of hermits, herbalists and wonder-workers who ate pine resin, rode cranes, vanished from their coffins and returned to test their disciples. The Biographies of Divine Immortals is a founding book of Daoist legend and a gallery of marvels. This is a complete new English translation, with names in modern pinyin and the text rendered as plain, readable English prose. These are short, vivid pieces, ideal for reading one or two at a sitting, and they open a window on what Chinese readers feared, desired and laughed at.
