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  1. Strange writing
    anomaly accounts in early medieval China
    Author: Campany, Robert Ford
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  State University of New York Press, Albany ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    Between the Han dynasty, founded in 206 B.C.E., and the Sui, which ended in 618 C.E., Chinese authors wrote many thousands of short textual items, each of which narrated or described some phenomenon deemed "strange." Most items told of encounters... more

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    Between the Han dynasty, founded in 206 B.C.E., and the Sui, which ended in 618 C.E., Chinese authors wrote many thousands of short textual items, each of which narrated or described some phenomenon deemed "strange." Most items told of encounters between humans and various denizens of the spirit world, or of the miraculous feats of masters of esoteric arts; some described the wonders of exotic lands, or transmitted fragments of ancient mythology. This genre of writing came to be known as zhiguai ("accounts of anomalies"). 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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0585042748; 9780585042749
    Series: SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 524 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-449) and index
  2. Strange writing
    anomaly accounts in early medieval China
    Author: Campany, Robert Ford
    Published: ©1996
    Publisher:  State University of New York Press, Albany

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English; Chinese
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0585042748; 0791426599; 0791426602; 9780585042749
    Series: SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General; Fantasy fiction, Chinese / History and criticism; Civilization, Medieval, in literature; Civilization, Medieval, in literature; Fantasy fiction, Chinese; Fantasy fiction, Chinese; Civilization, Medieval, in literature; Chinesisch; Fantastische Literatur; Geschichte
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 524 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-449) and index
  3. Strange writing
    anomaly accounts in early medieval China
    Published: c1996
    Publisher:  State University of New York Press, Albany

    1. Anomaly and Cosmography in Comparative Perspective -- 2. Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China: Genre and Texts -- 3. Justifying the Strange: The Warrant for the Genre of Anomaly Accounts -- 4. The Making of the Texts: Who, How, Why -- 5. The... more

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    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    1. Anomaly and Cosmography in Comparative Perspective -- 2. Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China: Genre and Texts -- 3. Justifying the Strange: The Warrant for the Genre of Anomaly Accounts -- 4. The Making of the Texts: Who, How, Why -- 5. The Description and Narration of Anomaly: Cosmographic Poetics -- 6. Modes of Anomaly: Cosmographic Logic -- 7. Strange Persuasions: Cosmographic Rhetoric -- 8. Reciprocity across Boundaries: Cosmographic Ethics. Between the Han dynasty, founded in 206 B.C.E., and the Sui, which ended in 618 C.E., Chinese authors wrote many thousands of short textual items, each of which narrated or described some phenomenon deemed "strange." Most items told of encounters between humans and various denizens of the spirit world, or of the miraculous feats of masters of esoteric arts; some described the wonders of exotic lands, or transmitted fragments of ancient mythology. This genre of writing came to be known as zhiguai ("accounts of anomalies") 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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