Pacing the Void: T'Ang Approaches to the Stars

by Edward H. Schafer

Book Overview

In the author's own words, this work attempts to recreate, for the 20th-century reader, the sky and the apparitions that ornament it as they were conceived, imagined, and reacted to by the men of T'ang-dynasty China-that is, to suggest what the medieval Chinese thought they saw in the night sky, and how they treated those magic lights in their active lives, their private commitments, and their literary fabrications. Inevitably, this enterprise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891640143
• ISBN13: 9781891640148
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Floating World Editions
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 10.0"