Download or read book Explorations in Daoism written by Ho Peng Yoke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Daoist canon is the definitive fifteenth century compilation of texts, however many of these texts are undated and anonymous. This book brings together an extraordinary compendium of data on alchemical knowledge in China, describing the methods used for dating important alchemical texts in the Daoist canon.