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050 00 $aGR685$b.L49 2006
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100 1 $aLewis, Mark Edward,$d1954-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88194303
245 14 $aThe flood myths of early China /$cMark Edward Lewis.
260 $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $avii, 248 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aSUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 153-229) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tFlood taming and cosmogony -- $gCh. 2.$tFlood taming and criminality -- $gCh. 3.$tFlood taming and lineages -- $gCh. 4.$tFlood taming, couples, and the body.
520 1 $a"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 for the major political and social institutions of Warring States (481-221 BC) and early imperial (220 BC-AD 220) China." "In some versions of the tales, the flood was triggered by rebellion, while other versions linked the taming of the flood with the creation of the institution of a lineage, and still others linked the taming to the process in which the divided principles of the masculine and the feminine were joined in the married couple to produce an ordered household. While availing themselves of earlier stories and of central religious rituals of the period, these myths transformed earlier divinities or animal spirits into rulers or ministers and provided both etiologies and legitimation for the emerging political and social institutions that culminated in the creation of a unitary empire."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aFloods$zChina$vFolklore.
650 0 $aFloods$zChina$xReligious aspects.
830 0 $aSUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86724503
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005007315.html
852 00 $beal$hGR685$i.L49 2006