The Flood Myths of Early China

by Mark Edward Lewis

Book Overview

Early Chinese ideas about the construction of an ordered human space received narrative form in a set of stories dealing with the rescue of the world and its inhabitants from a universal flood. This book demonstrates how early Chinese stories of the re-creation of the world from a watery chaos provided principles underlying such fundamental units as the state, lineage, the married couple, and even the human body. These myths also supplied a charter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791466639
• ISBN13: 9780791466636
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"