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The Flood Myths of Early China.
・ISBN 978-0-7914-6663-6 hard US$ 104.00
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| 著者・編者 | Lewis, Mark Edward, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) |
| 出版社 | (State University of New York Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2006 |
| ページ数 | 256 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A04-29083＞ |
解説
Explores 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 fundamental units as the state, lineage, the married couple, and even the human body. These myths also supplied a charter for the major political and social institutions of Warring States (481-221 BC) and early imperial (220 BC-AD 220) China.
In some versions of the tales, the flood was triggered by rebellion, while other versions linked the taming of the flood with the creation of the institution of a lineage, and still others linked the taming to the process in which the divided principles of the masculine and the feminine were joined in the married couple to produce an ordered household. While availing themselves of earlier stories and of central religious rituals of the period, these myths transformed earlier divinities or animal spirits into rulers or ministers and provided both etiologies and legitimation for the emerging political and social institutions that culminated in the creation of a unitary empire.