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Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. Werner presents a collection of traditional Chinese stories, legends, beliefs, and cultural narratives. The book introduces readers to a wide range of myths and legendary figures while providing insight into traditional Chinese imagination and storytelling. Werner explores stories involving heroes, supernatural beings, historical traditions, and cultural beliefs. Readers interested in mythology, folklore, Asian culture, and comparative literature will...

Original, exciting and innovative writing abounds in this collection of 20 irresistible short stories. Selected from more than 2,000 entries for the 2011 Bristol Short Story Prize

These outstanding stories from the 2010 Bristol Short Story Prize will provoke, stimulate, move, amuse, unsettle, and entertain

Myths and Legends of China is a capacious early-twentieth-century survey of Chinese cosmology, divine hierarchies, heroic tales, popular superstition, and religious folklore. Werner gathers creation myths, stories of culture heroes, dragon lore, immortals, ghosts, and temple deities into a prose style that is lucid, cataloguing, and comparativist. The book belongs to a formative period of English-language sinology, when Chinese narrative traditions were being translated, classified, and in...

Conceive the joy of a lover of nature who, leaving the art galleries, wanders out among the trees and wild flowers and birds that the pictures of the galleries have sentimentalised. It is some such joy that the man who truly loves the noblest in letters feels when tasting for the first time the simple delights of Russian literature. French and English and German authors, too, occasionally, offer works of lofty, simple naturalness; but the very keynote to the whole of Russian literature is ...

Myths and Legends of China' is a collection of mythical stories of China by E. T. C. Werner, who was a noted British diplomat in Qing Dynasty China and sinologist specialising in superstition, myths and magic. This unique and important collection of stories was first published in the year 1915.

In the text, Werner elucidates various aspects of Chinese mythology, including creation myths, legendary heroes, mythical creatures, and religious beliefs. Drawing from a wide range of Chinese literary sources, historical texts, and oral traditions, the author presents a detailed and engaging portrayal of the mythological landscape of China."Myths and Legends of China" offers readers a glimpse into the spiritual and cultural heritage of the Chinese people, exploring the symbolism, rituals,...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, shamanism and ancient knowledge. Our Books are available in digital format. We have approximat...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, shamanism and ancient knowledge. Our Books are available in digital format. We have approximat...

Myths and legends of China presents a comprehensive study of traditional Chinese mythology drawn from a wide range of literary and historical sources. The work brings together major mythic narratives while also explaining the cultural and social context that shaped them, offering readers a clearer understanding of their role in Chinese identity. It emphasizes careful translation and interpretation of original texts, aiming to present these stories in an accessible form while preserving the...

From the preface:“ The chief literary sources of Chinese myths are the Li tai shên hsien t’ung chien, in thirty-two volumes, the Shên hsien lieh chuan, in eight volumes, the Fêng shên yen i, in eight volumes, and the Sou shên chi, in ten volumes. In writing the following pages I have translated or paraphrased largely from these works. I have also consulted and at times quoted from the excellent volumes on Chinese Superstitions by Père Henri Doré, comprised in the valuable series Va...

Complete and unabridged, with 27 full-page plates by Wang Hui, Chen Hongshou and Zhou Lianggong. The Chinese pantheon set out in order - the gods of thunder, of the walls and ditches, of literature and the hearth - with the stories that go with them. Werner spent decades in the Chinese consular service and worked from Chinese sources rather than from other Europeans. This edition adds a gallery of 27 plates of Chinese painting and decorated porcelain, with works after Chen Hongshou and ima...