The early Chinese worldview -- Prescientific theory and religious practice -- The family : kindred and ancestors -- The community : gods and temples -- The state : emperor and officials -- Three ways to ultimate transformation : (1) Taoist tradition -- Three ways to ultimate transformation : (2) literati tradition -- Three ways to ultimate transformation : (3) Buddhist tradition -- Their separate ways : cults and sects -- The festival year -- Traditional Chinese religion as a means of coping -- The disruption of tradition.