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Strassberg, Richard E., Editor, Translator, Commentator. A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas.(Book Review)
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STRASSBERG, RICHARD E., Editor, Translator, Commentator. A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways through Mountains and Seas. (A Phillip E. Lilienthal Book) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xxii + 314 pages. Figures, plates, selected bibliography, glossary, index to the plates. Cloth US$75.00/52.00 [pounds sterling]; ISBN 0-520-21844-2.
The Guideways through Mountains and Seas (Shanhai jing), compiled from the Warring States (475-221 BCE) period to the Western Han (206 8CE-8 CE) dynasty, "records more than 500 animate creatures in addition to ...
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