Chinese Dreamscape, 300 Bce800 Ce

The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE¿800 CE investigates what dreams meant in late classical and early medieval China. Mapping a common dreamscape that underlies manuals of dream interpretation, scriptural instructions, and other texts, Robert Ford Campany sheds light on how people in a distant age wrestled with¿and celebrated¿the strangeness of dreams.

About the author

Robert Ford Campany is Professor of Asian and Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Signs from the Unseen Realm: Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China and Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China.

Summary

The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE investigates what dreams meant in late classical and early medieval China. Mapping a common dreamscape that underlies manuals of dream interpretation, scriptural instructions, and other texts, Robert Ford Campany sheds light on how people in a distant age wrestled with—and celebrated—the strangeness of dreams.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Ford Campany, Campany Robert Ford
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.10.2020
• EAN: 9780674247802
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24780-2
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History of Ideas, HISTORY / Asia / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literature: history & criticism, Asian History, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy