Creation stories, dragons, gods, demigods, the Queen Mother of the West, rivers, mountains; legends from Dunhuang, Buddhism, Daoism, etc. Illustrated. (By the late 1980s, most of these were frowned upon by the Chinese regime; some rose phoenix-like from official disfavour to manifest on a vast range of jaunty and lyrical cigarette packets, remembered with nostalgia in this quarter…).
The Chinese Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Legends
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Edition:Hardback978050025238315/09/2022From a Bookshelf nearby
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