Sinister Way

The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity''s diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity''s basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In The Sinister Way, Richard von Glahn examines the emergence and ...