Kitay. Zdes" prichudlivo pereplelis" drevnie shamanskie kul"ty i pochitanie buddistskikh kumirov, daosskie vozzreniya na prirodu i cheloveka i dominiruyushchee v obshchestvenno-politicheskoy sfere konfutsianstvo. V etoy nebol"shoy knige populyarnym yazykom opisany vazhneyshie yavleniya kitayskoy deystvitel"nosti - kul"t predkov, vera v dukhov, rol" mediumov v dukhovnoy kul"ture Drevnego Kitaya. Avtorom takzhe zatronuty nekotorye aspekty kul"tury povsednevnosti Vostochnoy Azii.