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In the author's own words, this work attempts to recreate, for the
20th-century reader, the sky and the apparitions that ornament it
as they were conceived, imagined, and reacted to by the men of
T'ang-dynasty China-that is, to suggest what the medieval Chinese .
. . thought they saw in the night sky, and how they treated those
magic lights in their active lives, their private commitments, and
their literary fabrications. Inevitably, this enterprise meant the
exploration of the borderlands where science, faith, tradition,
invention, and fantasy overlap. Armed with the new awareness that
this fascinating work provides, we can better understand the great
legacy of art and literature of this greatest period of cultural
flowering in Chinese history.
This important exploration of Chinese mythology focuses on the
diverse and evocative associations between women and water in the
literature of the T'ang dynasty as well as in the enormous
classical canon it inherited. By extension, it peers from medieval
China back into the mists of ancient days, when snake queens, river
goddesses, and dragon ladies ruled over the vast seas, great river
courses, and heavenly sources of water, deities who had to be
placated by shaman intercessors chanting hymns lost even by the
T'ang. As with his other notable works, Professor Schafer's
meticulous researches into the material culture of the past,
coupled with a delightful writing style, allow us to better
appreciate the literature of the T'ang by clarifying important
contemporaneous symbols of fertility, mutability, and power,
including the wondrous and ubiquitous dragon.
Contributing Authors Include Ernest Bender, William M. Brinner, W.
Norman Brown And Others.
Contributing Authors Include L. Alsdorf, S. A. Birnbaum, Thomas O.
Ballinger And Others.
Contributing Authors Include W. F. Albright, K. M. T. Atkinson,
Etienne Balazs And Others.
Contributing Authors Include Arthur B. Allen, Ernest Bender, E.
Benveniste And Others.
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