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Winner of the Stanislas Julien Prize Winner of the Joseph Levenson Prize for Scholarship on Pre-1900 China Dreaming is a near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. In this book, Robert Ford Campany investigates what people in late classical and early medieval China thought of dreams. He maps a common dreamscape―an array of ideas about what dreams are and what responses they should provoke―that underlies texts of diverse persuasions and genres over several centuries. These writings include manuals of dream interpretation, scriptural instructions, essays, treatises, poems, recovered manuscripts, histories, and anecdotes of successful dream-based predictions. In these many sources, we find culturally distinctive answers to questions peoples the world over have asked for millennia: What happens when we dream? Do dreams foretell future events? If so, how might their imagistic code be unlocked to yield predictions? Could dreams enable direct communication between the living and the dead, or between humans and nonhuman animals? The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE sheds light on how people in a distant age negot

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Author

Robert Ford Campany

Publisher

Brill | Harvard University Asia Center

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781684176427

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Psychology