Chinese Myths
- ISBN-10
- 1540553345
- ISBN-13
- 9781540553348
- Pages
- 210
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-11-22
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Author
- William Dolby
Description
This book presents well over 100 diverse and intriguing myths and legends from medieval China: cleverly translated, explained with copious footnotes and presented in an easy reading style. Although ancient China was a land of 'this-worldly' humanistic rationality, it was also one of rich, colourful and soaring imagination, as is seen in its mythology. What survives of the early mythology is no doubt only a small part of what once existed, but amply suffices to provide us with a varied and connected, vivid and whimsical, view of the world's creation and the supernatural beings and forces that were said to affect it. Many of these myths have been inspirational in, or even generated, works in the various aspects of Chinese culture, such as literature, drama, song, and visual arts. This book translates the main, and many of the minor, myths of ancient China, many of them for the first time into any non-oriental language.
