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Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China
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Artikel-Nr:
9780791426593
Veröffentl:
1996
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.1996
Seiten:
524
Autor:
Robert Ford Campany
Serie:
Suny Chinese Philosophy and Cu
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Robert Ford Campany is Associate Professor in the Departments of Religious Studies and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University.
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 as zhiguai ("accounts of anomalies").