By Robert Ford Campany
ISBN-10: 0824853490
ISBN-13: 9780824853495
Between three hundred and six hundred C.E., chinese language writers compiled hundreds of thousands of bills of the unusual and the intense. a few defined bizarre spirits, customs, and natural world in far away lands. a few depicted contributors of bizarre religious or ethical fulfillment. yet so much instructed of normal people’s encounters with ghosts, demons, or gods; sojourns within the land of the useless; eerily major desires; and uncannily actual premonitions. the choice of such tales awarded right here presents an pleasing creation to early medieval chinese language storytelling and opens a doorway to the enchanted international of suggestion, tradition, and non secular trust of that period. referred to as zhiguai, or “accounts of anomalies,” they impart very much approximately how humans observed the cosmos and their position in it. The stories have been circulated simply because they have been unique but additionally simply because their compilers intended to record the mysterious workings of spirits, the wonders of unique locations, and the character of the afterlife.
A choice of greater than 200 stories, A backyard of Marvels bargains an authoritative but obtainable creation to zhiguai writings, relatively these by no means prior to translated or thoroughly researched. This quantity will most likely locate its approach to bedside tables in addition to into school rooms and libraries, simply as collections of zhiguai did in early medieval times.