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L'histoire de M. Zuko prend naissance en 1983 quand Michel est au soleil sur une plage du Maine en compagnie de ses filles, Elisabeth et Isabelle. Elles lui demandent de leur raconter une de ses merveilleuses histoires. Sur le champ, Michel improvise pour ses jeunes enfants l'histoire de M. Zuko, un aimable personnage qui aime tant les ballons qu'un jour il se trouve entraine dans une folle aventure en compagnie de son inseparable perroquet Jojo. Les voici qui voyagent de plus en plus haut avant de redescendre sur terre ou ils font connaissance avec des animaux exotiques qui deviennent leurs...

Michel Faure could be relied on by his two young daughters to tell them fabulous stories. One of their favourites was spun into being in the summer of 1983, when the family was vacationing in Maine. It tells the story of Mr. Zuko, whose love of balloons sweeps him into an unexpected adventure, and of his talkative parrot Mimi, who goes along for the ride. They travel up and up, and when they finally come down, they discover new friendships and fun with exotic animals. Eventually, though, they realize there is no place like home. Back in Montreal, Michel wrote down his story and Joyce...

This book argues that the most profound and far-reaching effects of Buddhism on Chinese culture occurred at the level of practice, specifically in religious rituals designed to cure people of disease, demonic possession, and bad luck. This practice would leave its most lasting imprint on the liturgical tradition of Taoism. In focusing on religious practice, it provides a corrective to traditional studies of Chinese religion, which overemphasize metaphysics and spirituality. A basic concern with healing characterizes the entire gamut of religious expression in East Asia. By concentrating on...