The Legendary Creatures 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 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.
The Legendary Creature Of The Shan Hai Ching
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Author : John William Schiffeler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
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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 Classic Of Mountains And Seas
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Author :
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.
Ancient And Early Medieval Chinese Literature Vol 2
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-10-10
Ancient And Early Medieval Chinese Literature Vol 2 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and "schools," and important Chinese literary terms. In addition to providing authoritative information about each subject, the compilers have taken meticulous care to include detailed, up-to-date bibliographies and source information. The reader will find it a treasure-trove of historical accounts, especially when browsing through the biographies of authors. Indispensable for scholars and students of pre-modern Chinese literature, history, and thought. Part Two contains S to Xi.
Chinese Myths And Legends
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Author : Lianshan Chen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-25
Chinese Myths And Legends written by Lianshan Chen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-25 with History categories.
An illustrated introduction to the stories of deities, heroes and the origins of the universe that underpin traditional Chinese culture.
The Fourth Part Of The World
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Author : Toby Lester
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-11-03
The Fourth Part Of The World written by Toby Lester 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 2009-11-03 with History categories.
“Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507.” So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and sizes on their maps, but occasionally they hinted at the existence of a "fourth part of the world," a mysterious, inaccessible place, separated from the rest by a vast expanse of ocean. It was a land of myth—until 1507, that is, when Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann, two obscure scholars working in the mountains of eastern France, made it real. Columbus had died the year before convinced that he had sailed to Asia, but Waldseemüller and Ringmann, after reading about the Atlantic discoveries of Columbus’s contemporary Amerigo Vespucci, came to a startling conclusion: Vespucci had reached the fourth part of the world. To celebrate his achievement, Waldseemüller and Ringmann printed a huge map, for the first time showing the New World surrounded by water and distinct from Asia, and in Vespucci’s honor they gave this New World a name: America. The Fourth Part of the World is the story behind that map, a thrilling saga of geographical and intellectual exploration, full of outsize thinkers and voyages. Taking a kaleidoscopic approach, Toby Lester traces the origins of our modern worldview. His narrative sweeps across continents and centuries, zeroing in on different portions of the map to reveal strands of ancient legend, Biblical prophecy, classical learning, medieval exploration, imperial ambitions, and more. In Lester’s telling the map comes alive: Marco Polo and the early Christian missionaries trek across Central Asia and China; Europe’s early humanists travel to monastic libraries to recover ancient texts; Portuguese merchants round up the first West African slaves; Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci make their epic voyages of discovery; and finally, vitally, Nicholas Copernicus makes an appearance, deducing from the new geography shown on the Waldseemüller map that the earth could not lie at the center of the cosmos. The map literally altered humanity’s worldview. One thousand copies of the map were printed, yet only one remains. Discovered accidentally in 1901 in the library of a German castle it was bought in 2003 for the unprecedented sum of $10 million by the Library of Congress, where it is now on permanent public display. Lavishly illustrated with rare maps and diagrams, The Fourth Part of the World is the story of that map: the dazzling story of the geographical and intellectual journeys that have helped us decipher our world.
Myths Of The Dog Man
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Author : David Gordon White
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1991-05-07
Myths Of The Dog Man written by David Gordon White and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-05-07 with Religion categories.
"An impressive and important cross-cultural study that has vast implications for history, religion, anthropology, folklore, and other fields. . . . Remarkably wide-ranging and extremely well-documented, it covers (among much else) the following: medieval Christian legends such as the 14th-century Ethiopian Gadla Hawaryat (Contendings of the Apostles) that had their roots in Parthian Gnosticism and Manichaeism; dog-stars (especially Sirius), dog-days, and canine psychopomps in the ancient and Hellenistic world; the cynocephalic hordes of the ancient geographers; the legend of Prester John; Visvamitra and the Svapacas ("Dog-Cookers"); the Dog Rong ("warlike barbarians") during the Xia, Shang, and Zhou periods; the nochoy ghajar (Mongolian for "Dog Country") of the Khitans; the Panju myth of the Southern Man and Yao "barbarians" from chapter 116 of the History of the Latter Han and variants in a series of later texts; and the importance of dogs in ancient Chinese burial rites. . . . Extremely well-researched and highly significant."—Victor H. Mair, Asian Folklore Studies