Hidden and Visible Realms : : Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic.
Chinese culture of the Six Dynasties period (220–589) saw a blossoming of stories of the fantastic. Zhiguai, “records of the strange” or “accounts of anomalies,” tell of encounters with otherness, in which inexplicable and uncanny phenomena interrupt mundane human affairs. They depict deities, ghost...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Translations from the Asian Classics
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Terms Regarding Weights And Measures
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1. The Wonder of Love
- 2. A Garden of Marvels
- 3. The Spectacle of Monsters
- 4. The Realm of Ghosts
- 5. The Netherworld and This World
- 6. Animals and Men
- 7. Anecdotes of Notable Figures
- 8. Local Legends
- Appendix
- Tales Appearing in Other Renditions
- Works Cited
- Index