Hidden and Visible Realms: Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic by Zhenjun Zhang

Hidden and Visible Realms: Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic

Zhenjun Zhang

304 pages • first pub 2018 (view editions)

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Chinese culture of the Six Dynasties period (220-589) saw a blossoming of stories of the fantastic. Zhiguai, "records of the strange" or "accounts of anomalies," tell of encounters with otherness, in which inexplicable and uncanny phenomena interr...

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