Handbook of Chinese mythology /
Yang, Lihui.
An, Deming.
Turner, Jessica Anderson.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2008, c2005.
Compiled from ancient texts and based on ground breaking new research, this book is the most comprehensive English-language work on the subject ever written from an exclusively Chinese perspective. This work focuses on the Han Chinese people but ranges across the full spectrum of ancient and modern China, showing how key myths endured and evolved over time. A quick reference section covers all major deities, spirits, and demigods, as well as important places, mythical animals and plants, and related items. With more than 40 illustrations and photographs, fresh translations of primary sources, and insight based on the authors' own field research, no other work captures so well what Chinese mythology means to the people who lived and continue to live their lives by it.
Originally published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, ©2005.
Actually published in New York.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Compiled from ancient texts and based on ground breaking new research, this book is the most comprehensive English-language work on the subject ever written from an exclusively Chinese perspective. This work focuses on the Han Chinese people but ranges across the full spectrum of ancient and modern China, showing how key myths endured and evolved over time. A quick reference section covers all major deities, spirits, and demigods, as well as important places, mythical animals and plants, and related items. With more than 40 illustrations and photographs, fresh translations of primary sources, and insight based on the authors' own field research, no other work captures so well what Chinese mythology means to the people who lived and continue to live their lives by it.
Mythology, Chinese
Mythology, Chinese.