In the author's own words, this work endeavors 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'a
Since the early seventeenth century, Taoism---the native religion of China---has been regarded as superstition and potentially subversive. Chinese arbiters of taste systematically ignored the Taoist
An important exploration of Chinese mythology that focuses on the diverse and evocative associations between women and water in the literature of the T'ang dynasty.
Noted Sinologist Edward H. Schafer presents a literary and cultural history of the island of Hainan, located off the south coast of China east of Vietnam, from the earliest times to the twelfth centur
