[PDF.77bq] A Garden of Marvels: Tales of Wonder from Early Medieval China

A Garden of Marvels: Tales of Wonder from Early Medieval China

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 | #446492 in Books |  2015-07-31 |  2015-07-31 | Original language:Chinese |  9.25 x6.25 x.75l, | File type: PDF | 184 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| (Some of my best friends are students|By E. N. Anderson|Rob Campany hopes this book will be the sort that can be "recommended to students and friends" (page xix). (Some of my best friends are students....) The book fills the bill. It is a collection of short ghost stories and strange tales from the early medieval period, basically the period of disunion between the Han and S| |These zhiguai texts are not simply anomaly tales but valuable sources for Chinese studies and reading them is not only for our entertainment. . . . In sum, the zhiguai texts also serve as indirect material for various fields of Chinese studies such as religion

Between 300 and 600 C.E., Chinese writers compiled thousands of accounts of the strange and the extraordinary. Some described weird spirits, customs, and flora and fauna in distant lands. Some depicted individuals of unusual spiritual or moral achievement. But most told of ordinary people’s encounters with ghosts, demons, or gods; sojourns in the land of the dead; eerily significant dreams; and uncannily accurate premonitions. The selection of such stories prese...

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