| Edition |
First English-language edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 356 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm |
| Note |
Translated from the Chinese. |
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Authorized English translation from the Chinese-language edition, entitled Shanhaijing (or Shan hai jing), published in China by Tsinghua University Press Limited, 2015. |
| Summary |
Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas is a new translation for contemporary readers of a classic Chinese text that is at once the geography of an ancient world, a bestiary of mythical creatures, and a book of cultural and medicinal lore. Illustrated throughout with more than 180 two-color drawings, it is a work for lovers of fantasy and mythology, ancient knowledge, fabulous beasts, and inspired art. The beings catalogued within these pages come from the regions of the known world, from the mountains and seas, the Great Wastelands, and the Lands Within the Seas that became China. They include spirits and deities and all sorts of strange creatures--dragons and phoenixes, hybrid beasts, some hideous or with a call like wood splitting, or that portend drought or flood or bounty; others whose flesh cures disease or fends off nightmares, or whose pelt guarantees many progeny. |
| Contents |
Mountains classic. The southern mountains -- The western mountains -- The northern mountains -- The eastern mountains -- The central mountains -- Seas classic. Southern lands beyond the seas -- Western lands beyond the seas -- Northern lands beyond the seas -- Eastern lands beyond the seas -- Southern lands within the seas -- Western lands within the seas -- Northern lands within the seas -- Eastern lands within the seas -- Great eastern wastelands -- Great southern wastelands -- Great western wastelands -- Great northern wastelands -- Lands within the seas. |
| Subject |
Animals, Mythical -- China.
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Mythology, Chinese.
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China -- Description and travel.
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Ethnology -- China.
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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Ethnology. (OCoLC)fst00916106
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Animals, Mythical. (OCoLC)fst00809602
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Mythology, Chinese. (OCoLC)fst01031754
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China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
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| Genre/Form |
Myths. (OCoLC)fst01922484
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Illustrated works. (OCoLC)fst01423873
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Myths.
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Illustrated works.
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| Added Author |
Goldblatt, Howard, 1939- translator.
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Chen, Siyu, illustrator.
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| Added Title |
Shan hai jing. English
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| ISBN |
9781950691388 hardcover |
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1950691381 hardcover |
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