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Author Kirkova, Zornica, author.

Title Roaming into the beyond : representations of Xian immortality in early medieval Chinese verse / by Zornica Kirkova.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
2016

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Description 1 online resource (429 pages)
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Series Sinica Leidensia ; volume 129
Sinica Leidensia ; volume 129.
Note Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Univerzita Karlova, 2007.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Religious and literary background -- The dramatis personae -- A phenomenology of immortals -- The world of the immortals -- The way to immortality -- Immortality in the context of the human world -- Conclusion.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Chinese poetry -- Qin and Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D. -- History and criticism.
Chinese poetry -- 220-589 -- History and criticism.
Immortality in literature.
Taoism in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kirkova, Zornica. Roaming into the beyond : representations of Xian immortality in early medieval Chinese verse. Leiden : Brill, [2016] Sinica Leidensia ; volume 129 9789004311565
ISBN 9789004311565 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004311565
9789004313699 (e-book)

 
    
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