The Flood Myths of Early China David L. Hull

The Flood Myths of Early China David L. HullExplores how the flood myths of early China provided a template for that society's major social and political institutions. Early Chinese ideas about the construction of an ordered human space received narrative form in a set of stories dealing with the rescue of the world and its inhabitants from a universal flood. This book demonstrates how early Chinese stories of the re creation of the world from a watery chaos provided principles underlying such

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