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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: Chinese bestiary
    sub title: strange creatures from the guideways through mountains and seas = [Shan hai jing]
  title info:
    title: Shan hai jing
  title info:
    title: Shan hai jing (Chinese classic). English
  name:
    name part: Strassberg, Richard E.
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
  abstract: 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. All 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.
  note: edited and translated with commentary by Richard E. Strassberg.
  note: "A Philip E. Lilienthal book."
  note: Parallel title in Chinese characters.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Description and travel
  subject:
    topic: Mythology, Chinese
  subject:
    topic: Folklore
    geographic: China
  classification: DS707 .S4713 2018
  classification: 398.20951
  identifier: 9780520298514
  identifier: 0520298519
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 171009
    record change date: 20180718090429.0
    record identifier: in00004025684