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100 1 $aCampany, Robert Ford,$d1959-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94119105
245 10 $aStrange writing :$banomaly accounts in early medieval China /$cRobert Ford Campany.
260 $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axii, 524 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aSUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 403-449) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tAnomaly and Cosmography in Comparative Perspective --$g2.$tAnomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China: Genre and Texts --$g3.$tJustifying the Strange: The Warrant for the Genre of Anomaly Accounts --$g4.$tThe Making of the Texts: Who, How, Why --$g5.$tThe Description and Narration of Anomaly: Cosmographic Poetics --$g6.$tModes of Anomaly: Cosmographic Logic --$g7.$tStrange Persuasions: Cosmographic Rhetoric --$g8.$tReciprocity across Boundaries: Cosmographic Ethics.
520 $aBetween the Han dynasty, founded in 206 B.C.E., and the Sui, which ended in 618 C.E., Chinese authors wrote many thousands of short textual items, each of which narrated or described some phenomenon deemed "strange." Most items told of encounters between humans and various denizens of the spirit-world, or of the miraculous feats of masters of esoteric arts; some described the wonders of exotic lands, or transmitted fragments of ancient mythology.
520 8 $aThis genre of writing came to be known as zhiguai ("accounts of anomalies").
520 8 $aWho were the authors of these books, and why did they write of these "strange" matters? Why was such writing seen as a compelling thing to do? In this book, the first comprehensive study in a Western language of the zhiguai genre in its formative period, Campany sets forth a new view of the nature of the genre and the reasons for its emergence.
520 8 $aHe shows that contemporaries portrayed it as an extension of old royal and imperial traditions in which strange reports from the periphery were collected in the capital as a way of ordering the world. He illuminates how authors writing from most of the religious and cultural perspectives of the times - including Daoists, Buddhists, Confucians, and others - used the genre differently for their own persuasive purposes, in the process fundamentally altering the old traditions of anomaly-collecting.
520 8 $aAnalyzing the "accounts of anomalies" both in the context of Chinese religious and cultural history and as examples of a cross-culturally attested type of discourse, Campany combines in-depth Sinological research with broad-ranging comparative thinking in his approach to these puzzling, rich texts.
650 0 $aFantasy fiction, Chinese.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047122
830 0 $aSUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86724503
852 00 $beal$hPL2629.F35$iC36 1996