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    Classic of Mountains and Seas, also known as Shanhai jing (Chinese: 山海经), formerly romanized as the Shan-hai Ching, is a Chinese classic text and a compilation...
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  • Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas, 4th century BC). It is mentioned in the Bei Shan Jing ("Classic of the Northern mountains"), Zhong Shan...
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    region around 180 CE. Possibly the earliest use of Wa occurs in the Shan Hai Jing. The actual date of this collection of geography and mythological legends...
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    fictional setting in the Noh play Shōjō, a possible embellishment of the Shan Hai Jing stating this orangutan could be found on a particular seaside mountain...
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    texts, and erudite commentator. He was the first commentator of the Shan Hai Jing and so probably, with the noted Han bibliographer Liu Xin, was instrumental...
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    the limbless chiru [zh] ("red ru fish") passed down from the ancient Shan hai jing ("Classic of Mountains and Seas") (cf. § Chinese lingyu and chiru)....
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  • caves and trees. The cognates Sushen or Jichen (稷真) again appear in the Shan Hai Jing and Book of Wei during the dynastic era referring to Tungusic Mohe tribes...
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  • Gong, who used the water to make havoc in the realm of Emperor Yao. Shan Hai Jing narrates another version, where the flood is caused by Xiangliu, one...
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    Region, Language and the State. Slide 43 of 49 Shan Hai Jing - chapter 1. "Nanshang Jing" - Nan Ci San Jing: 有鳥焉,其狀如雞,五采而文,名曰鳳凰,首文曰德,翼文曰義,背文曰禮,膺文曰仁,腹文曰信...
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  • concubine of the Han Dynasty Liu Xiang, Chinese scholar, editor of Shan Hai Jing and compiler of Lienü zhuan, father of Liu Xin (b. 77 BC) Soseono, Korean...
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  • inspiration from an old Chinese book "Classic of Mountains and Seas" (Shan Hai Jing). "It's a weird book from old China, a bit like Nat Geo [National Geographic]...
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  • Gulliver, travels to strange lands, reminiscent of what are mentioned in Shan Hai Jing. The second half of the novel is a display of Li's erudition, and reads...
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    the majority of its ethnic groups. As early as the 4th century BC's Shan Hai Jing, the description of a 'black-toothed country' or Hei-chi-guo (黒歯国) appears...
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  • (6): 19–26. doi:10.16564/j.cnki.1003-2568.2014.06.008. "Xi Shan Jing 西山经". Shan Hai Jing 山海经. Online: Ctext.org. p. 49. Dubs, Homer H. (1942). "An Ancient...
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    wo jiku to shite" 人魚傳説―『山海經』を軸として― [Mermaid Legends Told Mainly in Shan-hai jing]. Journal of Waseda University Society of Chinese Literature. 8 (8):...
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    Major & al. (2010), ch. 3. Major & al. (2010), ch. 6 n. 大荒西經. 山海經 [Shan Hai Jing] (in Chinese). Giles, Lionel (1912). TAOIST TEACHINGS Translated from...
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    Ptolemaic Kingdom (d. 55 BC) Liu Xiang, Chinese scholar, editor of the Shan Hai Jing, compilator of the Lienü zhuan, and father of Liu Xin (d. 6 BC) Marcus...
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    First English Translation Incorporating the Recently Discovered Yin-ch'üeh-shan Texts. (New York:Ballantine Books). ISBN 0-345-36239-X Christie, Anthony...
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    vocabulary. Elements of pre-Han dynasty mythologies such as those in Shan Hai Jing were adapted into these belief systems as they developed (in the case...
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  • hen 1971: Dao bu liu ren 1971: Jia hua zong bi ye hua xiang 1971: Nu shan jing hun 1972: Kuang feng sha 1972: Se zi tou shang yi ba dao 1972: Pei shi...
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    1994, in Sydney, Italy 1996, in Poland 1996, in US 《山海經傳》 (A Tale of Shan Hai Jing) 1992, published by Hong Kong Cosmos Books Ltd. (香港天地圖書公司) 2008, published...
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    Huangfu Mi, Xu Zheng, and Sima Zhen: List provided at the end of the Shan Hai Jing: Descendants of Yan and Yellow Emperors Emperors Yan and Huang (monument)...
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    Chinese state Yan as early as the 3rd century BCE. According to the Shan Hai Jing, the Yan had relations with the Wa ('dwarf', 'short') people living...
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    based on the ancient books of beasts and supernatural creatures, the Shan Hai Jing and the Bo Wu Zhi (博物志); however, as the modern researchers Yang Jingrong...
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  • Extensively Commentated, "Vol. 5". Siku Quanshu version, pp. 171, 200 of 229 Shan hai jing [The classic of mountains and seas]. Translated by Anne Birrell. Penguin...
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    caves and trees. The cognates Sushen or Jichen (稷真) again appear in the Shan Hai Jing and Book of Wei during the dynastic era referring to Tungusic Mohe tribes...
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  • China portal Eighteen Provinces Four Seas Huaxia Nine Tripod Cauldrons Shan Hai Jing Tianxia Twelve Provinces Lagerwey, John; Kalinowski, Marc (2008-12-24)...
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    Tiangou from the Shan Hai Jing...
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  • Ptolemaic Kingdom (d. 55 BC) Liu Xiang, Chinese scholar, editor of the Shan Hai Jing, compilator of the Lienü zhuan, and father of Liu Xin (d. 6 BC) 75 BC...
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  • geographical features of China, and to name them - details not found in Shan Hai Jing Empresses and consorts: selections from Chen Shou's Records of the Three...
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