TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sun,Jiankun
AU  - Goldblatt,Howard
AU  - Chen,Siyu
TI  - Fantastic creatures of the mountains and seas: a Chinese classic 
SN  - 9781950691388
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Arcade Publishing
KW  - Animals, Mythical
KW  - China
KW  - Mythology, Chinese
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Myths
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Illustrated works
N1  - Authorized English translation from the Chinese-language edition, entitled Shanhaijing (or Shan hai jing), published in China by Tsinghua University Press Limited, 2015
N2  - Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas is a new translation for contemporary readers of a classic Chinese text that is at once the geography of an ancient world, a bestiary of mythical creatures, and a book of cultural and medicinal lore. Illustrated throughout with more than 180 two-color drawings, it is a work for lovers of fantasy and mythology, ancient knowledge, fabulous beasts, and inspired art. The beings catalogued within these pages come from the regions of the known world, from the mountains and seas, the Great Wastelands, and the Lands Within the Seas that became China. They include spirits and deities and all sorts of strange creatures--dragons and phoenixes, hybrid beasts, some hideous or with a call like wood splitting, or that portend drought or flood or bounty; others whose flesh cures disease or fends off nightmares, or whose pelt guarantees many progeny
ER  -