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…).