Strange Writing

Author: Robert Ford Campany
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0791426599

Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China (S U N Y Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

Between the Han dynasty, founded in 206 B. Download Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China (S U N Y Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. .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 as zhiguai ("accounts of anomalies"). Who were the authors of these books, and why did they write of these "strange" matters? Why was such writing seen as a compelling thing to do? In this book, the first comprehensive study in a Western language of the zhiguai ge Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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