Lewis The Flood Myths of Early China

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8222-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Explores how the flood myths of early China provided a template for that society’s major social and political institutions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewis, Mark Edward

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Comparative Flood Myths
Chinese Flood Myths
1. Flood Taming and Cosmogony
Cosmogonies and Social Divisions
Social Divisions and the Flood
The Flood and the Human–Animal Divide
The Flood and Human Nature
The Flood and Local Cultures
Conclusion
2. Flood Taming and Criminality
Criminality and the Collapse of Social Divisions
Gong Gong as a Criminal
Gun as a Criminal
Criminality and Flood in the Shan hai jing
Criminality, Floods, and the Exile of Sons
Conclusion
3. Flood Taming and Lineages
The Sages as Bad Fathers and Sons
The Demon Child
Fathers, Sons, and the Collapse of Social Divisions
Conclusion
4. Flood Taming, Couples, and the Body
The Mythology of Nü Gua and the Flood
The Mythology of Nü Gua and Fu Xi
The Iconography of Nü Gua and Fu Xi
Yu, Marriage, and the Body
Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Edward Lewis is Kwoh-ting Li Professor of Chinese Culture at Stanford University and the author of Writing and Authority in Early China and The Construction of Space in Early China, both published by SUNY Press.