About - LIN Fu-shih

Lin Fu-shi

Received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in History from National Taiwan University, and a Ph.D. from the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University for his 1994 dissertation entitled "Shamans and Shamanism in the Chiang-nan Area during the Six Dynasties Period (3rd-6th Century A.D.)." He is currently an Assistant Research Fellow in the Institute of History and Philology at the Academia Sinica. His research interests include the history of Chinese religions and popular culture, as well as Chinese everyday life. This interest has resulted in a number of articles dealing with the ancient Chinese conceptions of illness and dreams, ritual healing in Han China, and the Taoist scripture T'ai-p 'ing ching. He has also written a book entitled Han-tai te wu-che [Shamans in the Han Dynasty] (Taipei: Tao-hsiang ch'u-pan-she, 1988).