Strange Writing

Strange WritingThe first comprehensive, Western language study of the important Chinese genre of writing known as "accounts of the anomalies" (zhiguai) in its formative period. The book sets forth a new view of the nature and origins of the genre 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."

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