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The gorgeously illustrated contemporary edition of an ancient 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 The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Fantastic Creatures is the work of two members of China's millennial generation, a

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Author

Anonymous; Jiankun Sun; Siyu Chen; Howard Goldblatt

Publisher

Arcade Publishing

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781950691388

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Fiction, Classics

Rating

4.8 / 5 (98 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14