[PDF.01cv] The Flood Myths of Early China (Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

The Flood Myths of Early China (Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

[PDF.lt66] The Flood Myths of Early China (Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

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 | #2087721 in Books |  State University of New York Press |  2006-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.58 x6.00l,.74 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent Scholarly Study of Flood Myths of China|By Eric Anderson|This book is written from a scholarly perspective. It incorporates a massive amount of information from a large variety of sources. Obviously, the author is well-acquainted with the ancient texts and has compiled a wonderful book of information. The author looks at the flood myths of early China from many differ| |"This is a superb example of the best of contemporary studies of early China. Every page in every chapter of this book is a feast. The scholarship is impeccable, the sense of order deft, and the narrative argument compelling."|From

Early Chinese ideas about the construction of an ordered human space received narrative form in a set of stories dealing with the rescue of the world and its inhabitants from a universal flood. This book demonstrates how early Chinese stories of the re-creation of the world from a watery chaos provided principles underlying such fundamental units as the state, lineage, the married couple, and even the human body. These myths also supplied a charter for the major politica...

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