Based on first-hand materials gathered through decades of field research and fleshed out with the author’s insightful religious, cultural, and historical observations, this ethnological study investigates shamanic rituals, myths and lore in northern China and explores the common ideology underlying the origins of the region’s cultures.
Fu Yuguang, a native Manchu scholar of shamanic and Manchu studies from the Jilin Institute for Ethnology, has been committed to ethnological and anthropological research on the myths, rituals, and cultures of Altaic peoples in northern China for over 50 years and published many influential works.