Chinese Mythology by Anne M. Birrell, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

This is the perfect resource for teaching about Chinese myth, literature, history, religion, culture and thought. In Chinese Mythology, Anne Birrell provides English translations of some 300 representative myth narratives from more than 100 classical texts. Birrell addresses issues of source, dating, attribution, textural variants, multiforms and context. As well, readers learn about the development of Chinese myth studies in the West and the contribution of Chinese and Japanese scholars to the study of Chinese myth since the 1920s. | Chinese Mythology by Anne M. Birrell, Paperback | Indigo Chapters