LEADER 04397nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910821639403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7914-8222-7 010 $a1-4237-6619-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780791482223 035 $a(CKB)1000000000460840 035 $a(OCoLC)461442976 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579211 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000156041 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11946832 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000156041 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10114602 035 $a(PQKB)11166262 035 $a(OCoLC)65339516 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6369 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407788 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579211 035 $a(OCoLC)923409999 035 $a(DE-B1597)684416 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791482223 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407788 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000460840 100 $a20050314d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe flood myths of early China /$fMark Edward Lewis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 248 pages) 225 1 $aSUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-6664-7 311 $a0-7914-6663-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 153-229) and index. 327 $aIntro -- The Flood Myths of Early China -- CONTENTS -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z. 330 $aEarly Chinese ideas about the construction of an ordered human space received narrative form in a set of stories dealing with the rescue of the world and its inhabitants from a universal flood. This book demonstrates how early Chinese stories of the re-creation of the world from a watery chaos provided principles underlying such fundamental units as the state, lineage, the married couple, and even the human body. These myths also supplied a charter for the major political and social institutions of Warring States (481?221 BC) and early imperial (220 BC?AD 220) China.In some versions of the tales, the flood was triggered by rebellion, while other versions linked the taming of the flood with the creation of the institution of a lineage, and still others linked the taming to the process in which the divided principles of the masculine and the feminine were joined in the married couple to produce an ordered household. While availing themselves of earlier stories and of central religious rituals of the period, these myths transformed earlier divinities or animal spirits into rulers or ministers and provided both etiologies and legitimation for the emerging political and social institutions that culminated in the creation of a unitary empire. 410 0$aSUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture. 606 $aFloods$zChina$vFolklore 606 $aFloods$zChina$xReligious aspects 615 0$aFloods 615 0$aFloods$xReligious aspects. 676 $a398/.363 700 $aLewis$b Mark Edward$f1954-$0777877 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821639403321 996 $aThe flood myths of early China$94079075 997 $aUNINA