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The Story of Han Xiangzi

The Alchemical Adventures of a Daoist Immortal

By Yang Erzeng. Translated by Philip Clart

In this seventeenth-century Chinese novel, Han Xiangzi, best known as one of the Eight Immortals, seeks and achieves immortality and then devotes himself to converting his materialistic, politically ambitious Confucian uncle—Han Yu, a real historical figure—to...