Myths and Legends of China – E. T. C. Werner (1928)

S$83.00

Myths and Legends of China – E. T. C. Werner (1928)

S$83.00

Title: Myths and Legends of China

Author: E. T. C. Werner

Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co., 1928.

Condition: Hardcover, with dust jacket. Rare for a book of this age to come with a dust jacket. Dust jacket and book both in good condition. Some foxing to book, marker ink to endpaper. Front hinge slightly cracked to title page. With 32 colour plates. Text clean, binding tight. 454pp.

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Contents:

  1. The Sociology of the Chinese
  2. On Chinese Mythology
  3. Cosmogony – P’an Ku and the Creation Myth
  4. The Gods of China
  5. Myths of the Stars
  6. Myths of Thunder, Lightning, Wind, and Rain
  7. Myths of the Waters
  8. Myths of Fire
  9. Myths of Epidemics, Medicine, Exorcism, etc
  10. The Goddess of Mercy
  11. The Eight Immortals
  12. The Guardian of the Gate of Heaven
  13. A Battle of the Gods
  14. How the Monkey Became a God
  15. Fox Legends
  16. Miscellaneous Legends
  17. Glossary and Index

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