Introduction Vincent Goossaert Taoist Studies: Past and Present: A retrospective and perspective analysis of Taoist studies over a hundred years Qing Xitai From Yiqie daojing to Zhonghua daozang --A Retrospective of the Study of the Taoist Textual Heritage Wang Ka The Apocryphal Jia Section in Taipingjing Chao [Excerpts from the Scripture of Great Peace ] Wang Ming Lao-tzu, the Tao of Lao-tzu, and the Evolution of Taoism ---The Cultural Significance of the "Legend of Lao-tzu Converting the Barbarians " Hong Xiuping Cao Cao and Taoism Li Gang The Taoist Concept of the "Six Heavens" Wang Zongyu Cheng Xuanying and the study of the Twofold Mystery Tang Yijie From the Fundamentals of Philosophical Taoism to the Inner Alchemy of Religious Taoism Zhang Guangbao "Follow and Oppose " in Taoist Inner Alchemy and Its Contemporary Interpretation Ge Guolong Quanzhen School and the Culture of Qilu Region Mou Zhongjian The Revival of the Longmen Branch of the Quanzhen School in the Qing Dynasty Chen Bing The Impact of the Taoist Morality Book Taiwei xianjun gongguoge [ Register of Merits and Demerits of the Divine Lord of Great Tenuity ] Chen Xia Abnegating Killing and Cherishing Life Li Yuanguo Taoist Philosophy on Environmental Protection Yin Zhihua Study of the Medical Elements in Taoist Treatment: The Use of Talismans and Incantations Gai Jianmin A Comparative Study of the Ritual of the Three Great Purities, the Taiyi Ritual of Sublimation, and the Doumu Ritual of Sublimation --Similarities and Differences between the Taoist Rituals of the Cantonese Region and of the Jiangnan Region Chen Yaoting The Theatrical Character of Taoist Rituals Liu Zhongyu.