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Edward H. Schafer

    Questo sinologo è diventato rinomato per i suoi studi dettagliati sulla dinastia Tang, esplorando le interazioni della Cina con nuove culture e regioni. Le sue opere sono caratterizzate da una profonda comprensione dei processi storici e da un'enfasi sulla precisione linguistica, riflettendo la sua ferma convinzione sull'importanza fondamentale delle competenze linguistiche per le attività accademiche. Ha lasciato un'eredità significativa nella sinologia attraverso il suo approccio unico e le sue ampie pubblicazioni.

    Das alte China
    China
    The Divine Woman
    Great Ages of Man. Ancient China
    Ancient China. Great Ages of Man
    Das Alte China
    • The Divine Woman

      Dragon Ladies and Rain Maidens in T'ang Literature

      • 239pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      This important exploration of Chinese mythology focuses on the diverse and evocative associations between women and water in the literature of the T'ang dynasty as well as in the enormous classical canon it inherited. By extension, it peers from medieval China back into the mists of ancient days, when snake queens, river goddesses, and dragon ladies ruled over the vast seas, great river courses, and heavenly sources of water, deities who had to be placated by shaman intercessors chanting hymns lost even by the T'ang. As with his other notable works, Professor Schafer's meticulous researches into the material culture of the past, coupled with a delightful writing style, allow us to better appreciate the literature of the T'ang by clarifying important contemporaneous symbols of fertility, mutability, and power, including the wondrous and ubiquitous dragon.

      The Divine Woman1980