A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways through Mountains and Seas

ISBN-13: 9780520298514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 338 str.

Richard E. Strassberg; Richard E. Strassberg

Recenzje

"At last! Richard Strassberg's stunning new work provides a lively introduction in words and pictures to one of China's best loved and least understood classics, the Shanhai jing or Guideways Through Mountains and Seas. This classic of mythical geography and fantastic ethnography, full of wondrous stories and creatures, contains a treasury of information about the Chinese worldview and has inspired Chinese writers and artists for over two millennia. But until now, its strange vocabulary together with patchy transmission of both text and illustrations, have made it difficult to present to English-speaking audiences. His new book, the product of years of study by one of the few people truly qualified to analyze both text and the images, is sure to delight specialist and nonspecialist alike." - Suzanne Cahill, author of Transcendence and Divine Passion: The Queen Mother of the West in Medieval China

O autorze

Richard E. Strassberg is Professor Emeritus of Chinese at UCLA.