Assembling original contributions, this book is a pioneering attempt to address the Euro-American esoteric reception and appropriation of China.

Positioned between eighteenth-century's mesmerism and intersections with the modern martial arts current, the contributions specifically centre on nineteenth and early twentieth-century occult appraisals and representations. This book opens up an under-explored area of research in
the field of East–West interactions and the global history of religions.

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China in the Euro-American esoteric imagination: Contouring a lacuna
1 Daoism and Kung Fu as occult sciences: Historical comparisons between Chinese practices and mesmerism
2 Looking out for magic in Ancient China: The Yijing, its trigrams and the Figurist tradition in Éliphas Lévi
3 The Theosophical Daodejing: The beginnings
4 The Daoist who wasn’t: Albert de Pouvourville, Matgioi, Nguyễn Văn Cang and the problem of Indochinese masters in fin de siècle occultism
5 Turning further East: C. H. A. Bjerregaard and the esoteric enthusiasm for Daoism
6 Do what dao wilt: The integration of East Asian concepts and practices into Aleister Crowley’s Thelema
7 An exoticism of rationality and social order?: Examining the East–West binary in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century esoteric representations of China
8 The archetypal Dao: A look at C. G. Jung’s reception of Chinese thought
9 Be water my friend: Esotericism, martial arts and entangled histories
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