{"product_id":"the-chinese-dreamscape-300-bce-800-robert-ford-campany-9780674247802","title":"The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 Bce-800 CE","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Stanislas Julien Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Joseph Levenson Prize for Scholarship on Pre-1900 China\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDreaming is a near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. In this book, Robert Ford Campany investigates what people in late classical and early medieval China thought of dreams. He maps a common dreamscape--an array of ideas about what dreams are and what responses they should provoke--that underlies texts of diverse persuasions and genres over several centuries. These writings include manuals of dream interpretation, scriptural instructions, essays, treatises, poems, recovered manuscripts, histories, and anecdotes of successful dream-based predictions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these many sources, we find culturally distinctive answers to questions peoples the world over have asked for millennia: What happens when we dream? Do dreams foretell future events? If so, how might their imagistic code be unlocked to yield predictions? Could dreams enable direct communication between the living and the dead, or between humans and nonhuman animals? \u003ci\u003eThe Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE\u003c\/i\u003e sheds light on how people in a distant age negotiated these mysteries and brings Chinese notions of dreaming into conversation with studies of dreams in other cultures, ancient and contemporary. Taking stock of how Chinese people wrestled with--and celebrated--the strangeness of dreams, Campany asks us to reflect on how we might reconsider our own notions of dreaming.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Ford Campany\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674247809\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674247802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Robert Ford Campany","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43942462128383,"sku":"9780674247802","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b994ff44-a288-4785-86f6-0a83208dbdda.jpg?v=1681492516","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-chinese-dreamscape-300-bce-800-robert-ford-campany-9780674247802","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}