The Legendary Creature Of The Shan Hai Ching
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The Legendary Creatures Of The Shan Hai Ching
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Author : John William Schiffeler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Legendary Creatures Of The Shan Hai Ching written by John William Schiffeler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Animals, Mythical categories.
The Legendary Creature Of The Shan Hai Ching
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Author : John William Schiffeler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Legendary Creature Of The Shan Hai Ching written by John William Schiffeler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.
The Legendary Creatures Of The Shan Hai Ching
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Author : John Wm Schiffeler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Legendary Creatures Of The Shan Hai Ching written by John Wm Schiffeler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Shan hai jing (Chinese classic) categories.
Shan Hai Ching Chin U Engl Ausz The Legendary Creatures Of The Shan Hai Ching
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Shan Hai Ching Chin U Engl Ausz The Legendary Creatures Of The Shan Hai Ching written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Creatures categories.
A Chinese Bestiary
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Author : Richard E. Strassberg
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2018-03-05
A Chinese Bestiary written by Richard E. Strassberg and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-05 with Art categories.
A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries B.C.E., contains descriptions of hundreds of fantastic denizens of mountains, rivers, islands, and seas, along with minerals, flora, and medicine. The text also represents a wide range of beliefs held by the ancient Chinese. Richard Strassberg brings the Guideways to life for modern readers by weaving together translations from the work itself with information from other texts and recent archaeological finds to create a lavishly illustrated guide to the imaginative world of early China. Unlike the bestiaries of the late medieval period in Europe, the Guideways was not interpreted allegorically; the strange creatures described in it were regarded as actual entities found throughout the landscape. The work was originally used as a sacred geography, as a guidebook for travelers, and as a book of omens. Today, it is regarded as the richest repository of ancient Chinese mythology and shamanistic wisdom. The Guideways may have been illustrated from the start, but the earliest surviving illustrations are woodblock engravings from a rare 1597 edition. Seventy-six of those plates are reproduced here for the first time, and they provide a fine example of the Chinese engraver's art during the late Ming dynasty. This beautiful volume, compiled by a well-known specialist in the field, provides a fascinating window on the thoughts and beliefs of an ancient people, and will delight specialists and general readers alike.
The Shan Hai Ching And Its Myths
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Author : Shelley C. Carnes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Shan Hai Ching And Its Myths written by Shelley C. Carnes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
The Classic Of Mountains And Seas
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language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2000-01-01
The Classic Of Mountains And Seas written by and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Fiction categories.
This major source of Chinese mythology (third century BC to second century AD) contains a treasure trove of rare data and colorful fiction about the mythical figures, rituals, medicine, natural history, and ethnic peoples of the ancient world. The Classic of Mountains and Seas explores 204 mythical figures such as the gods Foremost, Fond Care, and Yellow, and goddesses Queen Mother of the West and Girl Lovely, as well as many other figures unknown outside this text. This eclectic Classic also contains crucial information on early medicine (with cures for impotence and infertility), omens to avert catastrophe, and rites of sacrifice, and familiar and unidentified plants and animals. It offers a guided tour of the known world in antiquity, moving outwards from the famous mountains of central China to the lands “beyond the seas.” Translated with an introduction and notes by Anne Birrell.
Chinese Myth And Culture
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Author : Anne Birrell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Chinese Myth And Culture written by Anne Birrell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Mythology, Chinese categories.
Chinese Mythology
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Author : Anne Birrell
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1999-04-26
Chinese Mythology written by Anne Birrell and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-26 with History categories.
In Chinese Mythology, Anne Birrell provides English translations of some 300 representative myth narratives selected from over 100 classical texts, many of which have never before been translated into any Western language. Organizing the narratives according to themes and motifs common to world mythology, Birrell addresses issues of source, dating, attribution, textural variants, multiforms, and context. Drawing on exhaustive work in comparative mythology, she surveys the development of Chinese myth studies, summarizes the contribution of Chinese and Japanese scholars to the study of Chinese myth since the 1920s, and examines special aspects of traditional approaches to Chinese myth. The result is an unprecedented guide to the study of Chinese myth for specialists and nonspecialists alike.
Fantastic Creatures Of The Mountains And Seas
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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-06-01
Fantastic Creatures Of The Mountains And Seas written by Anonymous and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with Fiction categories.
The gorgeously illustrated contemporary edition of an ancient Chinese text—for fans of fantastic beasts everywhere Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas is a new translation for contemporary readers of a classic Chinese text that is at once the geography of an ancient world, a bestiary of mythical creatures, and a book of cultural and medicinal lore. Illustrated throughout with more than 180 two-color drawings that are so sinuous they move on the page, it is a work for lovers of fantasy and mythology, ancient knowledge, fabulous beasts, and inspired art. The beings catalogued within these pages come from the regions of the known world, from the mountains and seas, the Great Wastelands, and the Lands Within the Seas that became China. They include spirits and deities and all sorts of strange creatures—dragons and phoenixes, hybrid beasts, some with human features, some hideous or with a call like wood splitting, or that portend drought or flood or bounty; others whose flesh cures disease or fends off nightmares, or whose pelt guarantees many progeny. Drawn from The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Fantastic Creatures is the work of two members of China's millennial generation, a young scholar and writer once known as the youngest "Genius of Chinese Cultural Studies" and an inspired illustrator trained in China and the United States, who together managed to communicate with the soul of a 4,000-year-old beast and have brought forth its strange beauty. Their work has been rendered into English by the foremost translator of modern Chinese literature in the West.