Isbn: 9780791426609 - strange writing: anomaly accounts in early medieval china (suny series in chinese philosophy and culture) (6 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Who were the authors of these books, and why did they write of these "strange" matters? Why was such writing seen as a compelling thing to do? In this book, the first comprehensive study in a Western language of the zhiguai genre in its formative period, Campany sets forth a new view of the nature of the genre and the reasons for its emergence. He shows that contemporaries portrayed it as an extension of old royal and imperial traditions in which strange reports from the periphery were collected in the capital as a way of ordering the world. He illuminates how authors writing from most of the religious and cultural perspectives of the times-including Daoists, Buddhists, Confucians, and others-used the genre differently for their own persuasive purposes, in the process fundamentally altering the old traditions of anomaly-collecting. Analyzing the "accounts of anomalies" both in the context of Chinese religious and cultural history and as examples of a cross-culturally attested type of discourse, Campany combines in-depth Sinological research with broad-ranging comparative thinking in his approach to these puzzling, rich texts.…

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Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Ser.: Strange Writing : Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China by Robert Ford Campany (1996, Trade Paperback) The book is in very good condition with a tight binding , clean inside , no markings .

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 524 pages. 9.50x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.