The Religious Afterlife of a Failed Hero
by
Barend J. ter Haar
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Guan Yu was a minor general in the early third century CE, who supported one of numerous claimants to the throne. He was captured and executed by enemy forces in 219. He eventually became one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord Guan or Emperor Guan, of the...