Mu-Chou Poo is Professor of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Wine and Wine Offering in the Religion of Ancient Egypt (2014), In search of Personal Welfare: A View of Ancient Chinese Religion, and Daily Life in Ancient China (1998).

1. Ghost: the other side of humanity; 2. The emergence of ghosts in early China; 3. Imperial order and local variations; 4. Stories that reveal the dark center; 5. Ghosts in early Daoist religious culture; 6. The taming of ghosts in early Buddhism; 7. Chinese ghosts in a comparative perspective.

What did ghosts look like, what did they do, and what can they tell us about Chinese culture and society?