Clarke started following the work of Charles Laughlin, University of Virginia, East Asian Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
Clarke started following the work of David Elstein, Suny New Paltz, Philosophy.
Clarke started following the work of Alison Marshall, Brandon University, Department of Religion.
Clarke "Perfection and Participation: Cosmic Cultivation, Literary Mysticism, and Sexual Esotericism in Daoist Alchemical Commentary." How's that for a book title! And it even describes the contents.
Faculty Member, Religious Studies
Assistant professor
About
I study pre-modern Daoist self-cultivation literature, primarily the inner-alchemical texts of the Song and Yuan dynasties, and secondarily texts from the Tang, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and Republican period. My book project is a sociological study of a Yuan-dynasty sexual alchemist, Chen Zhixu 陳致虛 (1290-1343+), which applies theories, methods, principles, and case studies from Pierre Bourdieu.
My dissertation, Spreading the Dao, Managing Mastership, and Performing Salvation: The Life and Alchemical Teachings of Chen Zhixu, can be downloaded for free from http://gradworks.umi.com/32/97/3297123.html. It contains a thorough introduction to inner alchemy (chap. 4, 140 pp.). Please have a look!
