Chinese Poetry and Prophecy: The Written Oracle in East Asia by Strickmann, Michel

Chinese Poetry and Prophecy: The Written Oracle in East Asia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780804743341)

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Chinese Poetry and Prophecy: The Written Oracle in East Asia by Strickmann, Michel

Chinese Poetry and Prophecy: The Written Oracle in East Asia

$140.00
Chinese Poetry and Prophecy: The Written Oracle in East Asia by Strickmann, Michel

Chinese Poetry and Prophecy: The Written Oracle in East Asia

$140.00
Format: Hardcover
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Focusing on oracular texts, Chinese Poetry and Prophecy examines the role of divination in Chinese culture, particularly in religious practice. Drawing on a dazzling array of ancient and modern sources, the author establishes the oracular sequence of important but obscure works in his celebrated engaging style.

This is the second posthumous work of Michel Strickmann to be to be edited by Bernard Faure for publication by Stanford University Press.



Author: Michel Strickmann
ISBN-10: 0804743347
ISBN-13: 9780804743341
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/13/2005
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.40w x 0.74d
By Michel Strickmann
By Michel Strickmann
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The late Michel Strickmann was Professor of Chinese Religions at the University of California, Berkeley, and a world-renowned expert on Taoism and on Asian popular religion. Stanford University Press has also published his Chinese Magical Medicine (2002).

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