Chinese folk religion is the underlying belief system of more than a billion Chinese people. Go into any Chinese home office or restaurant and you will see altars, statues or paper `good luck' images. And wherever there is a Chinese community there are temples and Earth God shrines: But what is the religion that makes sense of all these expressions of belief? How do these beliefs connect to Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism?<BR><BR>Chinese Gods helps us understand the building blocks of this religion for which even the Chinese have no name --- because the beliefs are intertwined with language and culture they have no independent existence --- and provides an in-depth analysis of 19 of the major gods of the Chinese pantheon.<BR><BR>"A classic work on Chinese folk religion." --- Sir David Tang