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Summary
An account and analysis of a genre of writing called "zhiguai" ("accounts of anomalies"; recording "strange" enounters between humans and various denizens of the spirit-world, the miraculous feats of masters of esoteric arts, the wonders or exotic lands, and fragments of anciet mythology, published between the Han dynast (206 BCE) and the Sui dynasty (which ended in 618 CE).
Title
Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China
Author
Campany, Robert Ford
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Date
1996
Object ID
2007.066.209