Monica Esposito
Italian translator and historian of Chinese Religion, Daoism
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Monica Esposito was an Italian scholar of Chinese religion specializing in the history, texts and practices of Daoism from the 15th to 20th centuries Early life and education Esposito was born in 1962 in the Italian city of Genoa. At the age of 4, she moved with her family to Padova. After graduating from high School she studied Chinese language and philosophy at the University of Venice , Fudan University in Shanghai and the Ghent University in Belgium. After graduation with a thesis on Qigong in 1987, she continued her studies under the direction of Professor Isabelle Robinet at the Department of Far Eastern Studies of the University of Paris. After obtaining the Diploma of Advanced Studies on texts of the Daoist canon in 1988, she returned to Shanghai and studied at the Academy of Social Science of Shanghai under the direction of Professor Chen Yaoting. Her graduate studies ended in 1993 with a summa cum laude Ph.D. in Far Eastern studies with the thesis "The Dragon Gate - The Longmen school of Mount Jin'gai and its alchemical practices according to the Daozang xubian ".
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