Lee Fong-mao李丰楙

Style & Daoist names

Lee Fong-mao

Period

Contemporary

Dates

1947 — ?

School

Zhengyi (Orthodox Unity) Daoism

Role

Daoist ScholarsChair Professor, National Chengchi UniversityResearch Fellow, Academia SinicaRegister-Ordained Daoist Priest

Birthplace

Yunlin, Taiwan

Life

Lee Fong-mao is a Taiwanese scholar of Daoism, chair professor at the Graduate Institute of Religious Studies, National Chengchi University, and research fellow (emeritus) at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica; a leading figure in Taiwanese Daoist studies, he is himself an ordained Zhengyi Daoist priest holding a register. His research spans Six Dynasties Daoist literature and biographies of immortals, Daoist ritual, Taiwanese folk belief, and Daoism and literature. He has written Studies of Six Dynasties, Sui and Tang Fiction on Immortality and the Dao, Anxiety and Roaming: Essays on Six Dynasties, Sui and Tang Poems of Roaming Immortals, Xu Xun and Sa Shoujian: A Study of Deng Zhimo's Daoist Fiction, Sanctification and Transformation: A Cultural Way of Thinking about "the Normal and the Extraordinary", and From Sacred Teaching to Daoism: Festival Customs, Belief and Culture in Malaysian Chinese Society, among others; he has proposed the interpretive framework of "the normal and the extraordinary", and has promoted the field documentation of Taiwanese Daoist ritual and the Wangye Jiao. The above is publicly available academic information.

Contributions & Influence

• Studied Six Dynasties Daoist literature and poems of roaming immortals
• Proposed the interpretive framework of "the normal and the extraordinary"
• Promoted field documentation of Daoist ritual in Taiwan and among Malaysian Chinese

Works

• Studies on Immortality-Themed Fiction of the Six Dynasties, Sui and Tang
• Anxiety and Roaming (You yu you)
• Xu Xun and Sa Shoujian
• Deification and Transformation
• From Sacred Teaching to Daoism