Strange Writing

Author: Robert Ford Campany
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0791426602

Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

This is the first comprehensive, Western-language study of the important Chinese genre of writing known as "accounts of the anomalies" (zhiguai) in its formative period. Download Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. The book sets forth a new view of the nature and origins of the genre.

Between the Han dynasty, founded in 206 B.C.E., and the Sui, which ended in 618 C.E., Chinese authors wrote many thousands of short textual items, each of which narrated or described some phenomenon deemed "strange."Most items told of encounters between humans and various denizens of the spirit-world, or of the miraculous feats of masters of esoteric arts; some described the wonders of exotic lands, or transmitted fragments of ancient mythology. This genre of writing came to be known Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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