Author : Robert Ford Campany
Publisher : Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
ISBN 13 : 9780674247796
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (477 download)
Book Synopsis The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE by : Robert Ford Campany
Download or read book The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE written by Robert Ford Campany and published by Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE investigates what dreams meant in late classical and early medieval China. Mapping a common dreamscape that underlies manuals of dream interpretation, scriptural instructions, and other texts, Robert Ford Campany sheds light on how people in a distant age wrestled with--and celebrated--the strangeness of dreams.