![]() ![]() Early versions of the text may have existed since the 4th century BCE, but the present form was not reached until the early Han dynasty. I’m the most curious about what it may have to say about core Chinese principles and culture.Īccording to Wikipedia, 山海经 Shanhai Jing Classic of the Mountains and Seas “is a Chinese classic text and a compilation of mythic geography and beasts. This and other things I’ve read on the internet about the very many different categories that the book has been put into are part of what has drawn my interest to the book. It is not known why it was written or how it came to be viewed as an accurate geography book.” In fact, the information in the book is mythological. Regarding 山海经 Shanhai Jing Classic of the Mountains and Seas, according to Wikipedia, “Earlier Chinese scholars referred to it as a bestiary, but apparently assumed it was accurate. It’s apparently more accessible to general people than its preceding English translation The Classic of Mountains and Seas by Anne Birrell, published in 2000. ![]() His book is apparently written for general people and not just academics. Strassberg, is a Professor of Chinese at the University of California, Los Angeles. Search for “ 山海经 Classic of Mountains and Seas.”Ī Chinese Bestiary weaves together translations from 山海经 Shanhai Jing Classic of the Mountains and Seas with information from other texts. 山海经 Shanhai Jing Classic of the Mountains and Seas can also be downloaded for free at. Strassberg, published in 2002.Ī Chinese Bestiary can be downloaded for free at the following link. ![]() I recently stumbled across an English translation of the ancient book 山海经 (Shanhai Jing Classic of the Mountains and Seas) for free! It’s A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas by Richard E. the Ltishi chunqiu, the Huai nan zi, the Liji, the Zhou li, the Guan zi.I’m new to all this, so please pardon my extreme ignorance on all levels. Any mistakes found in this paper are my own responsibility. ![]() My special thanks to John Moffett for final corrections, as well as for his valuable comments. I owe a debt of gratitude also to Bridie Andrews, Marta Hanson, Morris Low, and Lowell Skar for important remarks and corrections of my English. I am truly grateful to François Martin for taking time to conduct a meticulous reading through of this paper with me. I would like to thank Augustin Berque, Charles Le Blanc, Karine Chemla, Anne Cheng, Marc Kalinowski, Michael Lackner, Christian Lamouroux, Bernard Lepetit, Rémi Mathieu, Georges Métailié, and Alexei Volkov for valuable comments on this paper. My participation in this Conference was kindly supported by the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Foundation. Certain items were discussed at the 10th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 29 August - 1 September 1994). It is an enlarged version of a paper presented at the 7th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (Kansai Science City, Kyoto District, Japan, 2-7 August 1993), which I attended thanks to the financial support of the Organizing Committee of the Conference. An exploration of it can serve to highlight certain typological characteristics and specifics of conceptions of space at the mature stage of Chinese cosmography, and to advance some suppositions concerning its origins and evolution.ĪBBREVIATIONS: SBCK - Sibu congkan - SBBY - Sibu beiyao - SSJZS - Shisanjing zhushu - ZZJC - Zhuzi jicheng This article was written under the auspices of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Foundation. In addition, the extent of the geographical area encompassed and the multiplicity of detail provided, combined with a remarkably systematic arrangement of data, distinguishes it from other ancient Chinese representations of the world. It occupies a special place among these sources as the only text entirely devoted to cosmography. The SHJ is one of several sources * of a compilatory nature produced by the summarization and systematization and, to a considerable extent, the reconstruction and reinterpretation of the cultural heritage accumulated by the formative stage of imperial China (the end of the 1st millenium B.C.- the beginning of the 1st millenium A.D.). This article* is concerned with the view of the terrestrial world presented in the Shan haijing ("The Classic of Mountains and Seas", hereafter the SHJ). Conception of Terrestrial Organization in the Shan haijing ![]()
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