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Exploring Chinese mythology
\"The Chinese people feel that the ethical qualities of their leading mythical characters mirror or echo the superior morality of their long-lived civilization overall. They believe that several of the heroes and deities in the myths were either real people or at least based on historical persons. In their eyes, therefore, their history is frequently highlighted by great individuals and deeds\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Chinese Bestiary
A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of
mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written
in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and
Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries b.c.e.,
contains descriptions of hundreds of fantastic denizens of
mountains, rivers, islands, and seas, along with minerals, flora,
and medicine. The text also represents a wide range of beliefs held
by the ancient Chinese. Richard Strassberg brings the
Guideways to life for modern readers by weaving together
translations from the work itself with information from other texts
and recent archaeological finds to create a lavishly illustrated
guide to the imaginative world of early China. Unlike the
bestiaries of the late medieval period in Europe, the
Guideways was not interpreted allegorically; the strange
creatures described in it were regarded as actual entities found
throughout the landscape. The work was originally used as a sacred
geography, as a guidebook for travelers, and as a book of omens.
Today, it is regarded as the richest repository of ancient Chinese
mythology and shamanistic wisdom. The Guideways may have
been illustrated from the start, but the earliest surviving
illustrations are woodblock engravings from a rare 1597 edition.
Seventy-six of those plates are reproduced here for the first time,
and they provide a fine example of the Chinese engraver's art
during the late Ming dynasty. This beautiful volume, compiled by a
well-known specialist in the field, provides a fascinating window
on the thoughts and beliefs of an ancient people, and will delight
specialists and general readers alike.
eBook
China's Creation and Origin Myths
This book makes a provocative case for the comparative study of China's oral and written myth traditions in different languages and cultures. It opens new doors to the study of Chinese mythologies, a surprising and so far almost unknown world outside China.
eBook
Understanding Chinese myths
\"In this colorful book, students will learn about the roles and relationships of the heroes and gods in ancient Chinese myths and legends. Several ancient Chinese myths are retold, describing how these stories helped ancient people interpret their world.\"--Amazon.com.
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The analysis of international communication value assessment of Chinese mythology themed animated films in belt and road under BPNN algorithm
Chinese mythology-themed animated films are critical carriers of cultural communication. With the promotion of the “Belt and Road” initiative, how to scientifically assess their international communication value has become a current research hotspot. The innovation of this work lies in integrating the Backpropagation Neural Network (BPNN) algorithm from artificial intelligence techniques with the Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) algorithm. This work proposes a cultural feature recognition model based on the BPNN-BiLSTM fusion. This innovative approach effectively handles the complex nonlinear features in film content and captures long-term dependencies and semantic information within text sequences through the BiLSTM algorithm. The approach improves the recognition accuracy of cultural features in Chinese mythological animated films. Experimental results show that the model achieves an accuracy of 94.39% on the test set, with the loss value maintained at around 0.60, demonstrating high performance and accuracy. Compared to traditional evaluation methods, the proposed fusion algorithm improves the efficiency of the evaluation. Also, it provides a new technical path for accurately identifying cultural features. Thus, this approach has significant theoretical value and practical significance. Meanwhile, it can effectively promote the international dissemination of Chinese mythological animated films in the context of the “Belt and Road” initiative.
Journal Article
Explore Ancient Chinese myths
Explores ancient Chinese mythology through twenty-five projects, including making mooncakes, writing in Chinese, and designing a New Year's story board game.
Book
Alternative accounts, rivers and dams: the case of the Green Earth Volunteers’ river project
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the alternative accounts produced by Green Earth Volunteers (GEV), a Chinese environmental non-governmental organisation, over a 10-year period in the context of their campaign to create visibilities about hydroelectric dam projects along the Chang Jiang.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on conceptions of the human–nature relationship, including those evident in ancient Chinese philosophy and mythology, and the Chinese way of viewing and resolving conflict, this paper offers an interpretive analysis of the alternative accounts of GEV in terms of their form and content.FindingsIn terms of their content, the alternative accounts reflect elements of interrelated thinking, being underpinned by a recognition of the relationship between humans and nature, which is evident in Confucianism, Taoism and ancient Chinese mythology. The strategies adopted by GEV are a non-confrontational but feasible way to promote their ecological beliefs in the Chinese context.Practical implicationsThe study suggests that social and environmental accounting (SEA) in developing countries is steeped in local cultural and philosophical traditions that need to be considered and incorporated into the design of alternative accounts.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the very limited literature that offers qualitative analyses of SEA in developing countries.
Journal Article
Confucius and the Hen-Pheasant: The Enigma at the Center of the Analects
The last sentence of Chapter 10 of the
Analects
describes a brief encounter between Confucius and a hen-pheasant, and it does so in puzzling terms, ridden with lexical difficulties. At the same time, intertextual references insert this fragment into the context of Confucius’ life mission as well as of Chinese mythological narratives. This contribution assesses the fragment’s meaning and significance: Confucius’ reaction to the hen-pheasant unveils his evolving understanding of the Heavenly Mandate bestowed upon him. The fragment thus forcefully concludes the chapter in which it is inserted. Additionally, I put forward a hypothesis: the focus of this narrative, coupled with its positioning at the end of Chapter 10, induce us to postulate that it may have been purposefully located at the very center of the
Analects
, a proposition that reverberates on the way we look at the composition of the book.
Journal Article