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The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)

Robert Ford Campany

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Description:Dreaming 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.In 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? The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series). To get started finding The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Dreaming 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.In 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? The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series). To get started finding The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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