Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas: A Chinese Classic by Anonymous (E

Description: Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas by Anonymous, Jiankun Sun, Howard Goldblatt, Siyu Chen Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description The gorgeously illustrated contemporary edition of anancient Chinese text-for fans of fantastic beasts everywhereFantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas is a new translation for contemporary readers of a classic Chinese text that is at once the geography of an ancient world, a bestiary of mythical creatures, and a book of cultural and medicinal lore. Illustrated throughout with more than 180 two-color drawings that are so sinuous they move on the page, it is a work for lovers of fantasy and mythology, ancient knowledge, fabulous beasts, and inspired art. The beings catalogued within these pages come from the regions of the known world, from the mountains and seas, the Great Wastelands, and the Lands Within the Seas that became China. They include spirits and deities and all sorts of strange creatures-dragons and phoenixes, hybrid beasts, some with human features, some hideous or with a call like wood splitting, or that portend drought or flood or bounty; others whose flesh cures disease or fends off nightmares, or whose pelt guarantees many progeny. Drawn from TheClassic of Mountains and Seas, Fantastic Creatures is the work of two members of Chinas millennial generation, a young scholar and writer once known as the youngest "Genius of Chinese Cultural Studies" and an inspired illustrator trained in China and the United States, who together managed to communicate with the soul of a 4,000-year-old beast and have brought forth its strange beauty. Their work has been rendered into English by the foremost translator of modern Chinese literature in the West. Author Biography Jiankun Sun,once known as the youngest "Genius of Chinese Cultural Studies," is now a graduate student of the Institute of History, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He excels in research on The Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing) and was a first-prize winner of Fudan Universitys Boya Cup national essay competition for his essay onThe Classic of Mountains and Seas.He lives in Shanghai.Siyu Chen, whose inspired illustrations provided the spark for this new edition,is a freelance illustrator. She graduated from Tsinghua University in Beijing with bachelors and masters degrees, then studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she received her second masters degree. Her published books include, besidesFantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing),Songs of the South (Chu Ci). Her illustration work has been selected for the American Illustration Archive. She lives in Germany with her husband and two children.Howard Goldblattis a literary translatorof numerous works of contemporary Chinese fiction from mainland China and Taiwan, including Nobel Prizewinner Mo Yan, five of whose works are published by Arcade (The Garlic Ballads;The Republic of Wine;Big Breasts and Wide Hips; Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out; Shifu, Youll Do Anything for a Laugh). He has also translated works byLiu Zhenyun (I Did Not Kill My Husband; The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon; Remembering 1942, which are published by Arcade), Huang Chunming (The Taste of Apples), and Chen Ruoxi (The Execution of Mayor Yin). He taught modern Chinese literature and culture for more than a quarter of a century. He lives in Lafayette, Colorado. Details ISBN 1950691381 ISBN-13 9781950691388 Title Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas Author Anonymous, Jiankun Sun, Howard Goldblatt, Siyu Chen Format Hardcover Year 2021 Pages 376 Publisher Skyhorse Publishing GE_Item_ID:138003422; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. 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