--- _id: cnp00550775 data: actNote: - authority: sswd intro: acti lang: ger text: Personen als literarisches Motiv (12.4p) uri: http://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gnd-sc#12.4p - authority: sswd intro: acti lang: ger text: Personen als künstlerisches Motiv (13.1cp) uri: http://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gnd-sc#13.1cp - authority: sswd intro: acti lang: ger text: 'Personen zu allgemeiner und vergleichender Religionswissenschaft, Personen zu nichtchristlichen Religionen (3.1p)' uri: http://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gnd-sc#3.1p - authority: gnd intro: acti lang: ger text: Gott uri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4021662-7 - authority: ddc22/ger intro: acti lang: ger text: T3C-351 - authority: ddc22/ger intro: acti lang: ger text: T3C-38202113 extDataset: - code: VIAF note: - lang: eng text: Clustered authority record searchTerm: http://viaf.org/viaf/5736642 typeOfResource: same - code: DNBI note: - lang: eng text: Authority record searchTerm: http://d-nb.info/gnd/119234823 typeOfResource: same - code: WDAT note: - lang: eng text: Wikidata description set searchTerm: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q718198 typeOfResource: same - code: LINK note: - lang: und text: "Myths & Legends of ChinaByE.T.C. WernerH.B.M. Consul Foochow (Retired) Barrister-at-law Middle Temple Late Member of The Chinese Government Historiographical Bureau Peking Author of “Descriptive Sociology: Chinese” “China of the Chinese” Etc.With Thirty-two Illustrations In Colours By Chinese ArtistsGeorge G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.London Bombay SydneyIn MemoriamGladys Nina Chalmers Werner Page 7PrefaceThe chief literary sources of Chinese myths are the Li tai shên hsien t'ung chien, in thirty-two volumes, the Shên hsien lieh chuan, in eight volumes, the Fêng shên yen i, in eight volumes, and the Sou shên chi, in ten volumes. In writing the following pages I have translated or paraphrased largely from these works. I have also consulted and at times quoted from the excellent volumes on Chinese Superstitions by Père Henri Doré, comprised in the valuable series Variétés Sinologiques, published by the Catholic Mission Press at Shanghai. The native works contained in the Ssŭ K'u Ch'üan Shu, one of the few public libraries in Peking, have proved useful for purposes of reference. My heartiest thanks are due to my good friend Mr Mu Hsüeh-hsün, a scholar of wide learning and generous disposition, for having kindly allowed me to use his very large and useful library of Chinese books. The late Dr G.E. Morrison also, until he sold it to a Japanese baron, was good enough to let me consult his extensive collection of foreign works relating to China whenever I wished, but owing to the fact that so very little work has been done in Chinese mythology by Western writers I found it better in dealing with this subject to go direct to the original Chinese texts. I am indebted to Professor H.A. Giles, and to his publishers, Messrs Kelly and Walsh, Shanghai, for permission to reprint from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio the fox legends given in Chapter XV.This is, so far as I know, the only monograph on Chinese mythology in any non-Chinese language. Nor do the native works include any scientific analysis or philosophical treatment of their myths. Page 8My aim, after summarizing the sociology of the Chinese as a prerequisite to the understanding of their ideas and sentiments, and dealing as fully as possible, consistently with limitations of space (limitations which have necessitated the presentation of a very large and intricate topic in a highly compressed form), with the philosophy of the subject, has been to set forth in English dress those myths which may be regarded as the accredited representatives of Chinese mythology—those which live in the minds of the people and are referred to most frequently in their literature, not those which are merely diverting without being typical or instructive—in short, a true, not a distorted image.Edward Theodore Chalmers WernerPekingFebruary 1922" rights: "By Chinese Artists / http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15250/15250-h/15250-h.htm#d0e5806 -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wên Ch'ang, K'uei Hsing, and Chu I..jpg" searchTerm: "http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/File:Wên Ch'ang, K'uei Hsing, and Chu I..jpg" typeOfResource: dpct external: - auth: GND country: DE date: 20130223 id: 119234823 foundIn: - LoC-NA - Lex. östl. 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