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A Chinese bestiary : strange creatures from the guideways through mountains and seas = [Shan hai jing] / edited and translated with commentary by Richard E. Strassberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Shan hai jing (Chinese classic). English
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--Description and travel.
- China.
- Mythology, Chinese.
- Folklore--China.
- Folklore.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
- Other Title:
- Shan hai jing
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- This beautifully illustrated book offers a fascinating window into the earliest surviving cosmography in China, considered the richest repository of ancient Chinese shamanistic belief and a catalog of gods, sacred places, mythical beasts and other wonders of the universe as known or imagined by the middle of the first millennium.
- Notes:
- Parallel title in Chinese characters.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520218442
- OCLC:
- 49977148
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