Robinet, The World Upside Down: Essays on ... - The Golden Elixir

Acknowledgements“<strong>The</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Upside</strong> <strong>Down</strong> in Taoist Internal Alchemy” was originallypublished as “Le monde à l’envers dans l’alchimie intérieure taoïste”in Revue de l’Histoire des Religions 209 (1992): 239–57. Englishtranslation published with the permission of the Collège de France.“<strong>The</strong> Alchemical Language, or the Effort to Say the Contradictory”was originally published as “Mystique et rationalité: Le langage dansl’alchimie intérieure taoïste ou l’effort pour dire le contradictoire” inAsiatische Studien / Études asiatiques 47 (1993): 645–62. Englishtranslation published with the permission of the SchweizerischeAsiengesellschaft.“Role and Meaning of Numbers in Taoist Cosmology and Alchemy”was originally published as “Le rôle et le sens des nombres dans lacosmologie et l’alchimie taoïstes” in Extrême-Orient — Extrême-Occident 16 (1994): 93–120. English translation published with thepermission of the Presses Universitaires de Vincennes.“On the Meaning of the Terms Waidan and Neidan” was originallypublished as “Sur le sens des termes waidan et neidan” in TaoistResources 3.1 (1991): 3–40. English translation published with thepermission of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions.vii