Liu Zhongyu刘仲宇

Period

Contemporary

Dates

1946 — ?

Role

Daoist ScholarsProfessor, East China Normal University

Birthplace

Unknown

Life

Liu Zhongyu is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Philosophy at East China Normal University, and a leading scholar of Daoist studies in Shanghai. His research focuses on Daoist talismans and registers, Daoist ritual and magical practice, and Daoist culture. His works include Daoist Ritual Magic (Daojiao fashu, 2002), A Study of the Daoist System of Register Conferral (2014), A Perspective on Chinese Daoist Culture, The Inner Esoteric World of Daoism, and Studies in Zhengyi Daoism, among others. He is especially known for his systematic research on Zhengyi talismans and registers, the register-conferral system, and Daoist ritual magic, and has worked closely with the Shanghai Daoist community (such as Chen Liansheng), taking part in compiling Shanghai Daoist ritual liturgy and the Great Dictionary of Daoism. The above is public academic information. He has also long studied Daoism and popular religion and the Daoist pantheon of immortals and deities, and took part in compiling the large-scale reference work Chinese Daoism (Zhongguo Daojiao).

Contributions & Influence

• Systematic research on Daoist ritual magic and the register-conferral system
• Advanced the study of Zhengyi Daoism in the Shanghai region
• Took part in compiling Shanghai Daoist ritual liturgy and the Great Dictionary of Daoism

Works

• Daoist Magical Arts
• Studies on the Daoist System of Conferring Registers
• A Perspective on Chinese Daoist Culture
• The Inner Esoteric World of Daoism