A Chinese bestiary : strange creatures from the guideways through mountains and seas = 山海經 / edited and translated with commentary by Richard E. Strassberg.
"Philip E. Lilienthal Asian studies endowment."
Parallel title in Chinese characters.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index.

Illustrations; Preface; Editorial Notes; Introduction; Plates I to LXXVI from the Guideways through Mountains and Seas; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Glossary Index to Plates.

"A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries, B.C.E., contains descriptions of hundreds of fantastic denizens of mountains, rivers, islands, and seas, along with minerals, flora, and medicine. The text also represents a wide range of beliefs held by the ancient Chinese. Richard Strassberg brings the Guideways to life for modern readers by weaving together translations from the work itself with information from other texts and recent archaeological finds to create a lavishly illustrated guide to the imaginative world of early China." "Unlike the bestiaries of the late medieval period in Europe, the Guideways was not interpreted allegorically; the strange creatures described in it were regarded as actual entities found throughout the landscape. The work was originally used as a sacred geography, as a guidebook for travelers, and as a book of omens. Today, it is regarded as the richest repository of ancient Chinese mythology and shamanistic wisdom. The Guideways may have been illustrated from the start, but the earliest surviving illustrations are woodblock engravings from a rare 1597 edition. All seventy-six of those plates are reproduced here for the first time, and they provide a fine example of the Chinese engraver's art during the late Ming dynasty."--Jacket.

Local access dig. pdf. [Strassberg-Bestiary.pdf]
Also in Djvu format.

" ... provides excellent source materials to mythologists and historians of science, geography, and society. Specialists in fiction find it important as the earliest record of such key story-cycles as sailing to the Milky Way and the capture of Sichuan women by monkey gods and as evidence of the development of ancient stories like those of the Buzhou Mountain and the diety Kuafu. It influenced the Soushen ji among other later fictional works.--Cf. Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, p. 215-216

Kodai Chūgoku no kamigami : kodai densetsu no kenkyū  古代中國の神々 :  古代伝說の硏究  /  Mitarai Masaru cho  御手洗勝著.

Title on added t.p.: The dieties of early China.
Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary in English: The dieties of early China: studies in archaic legends by Masaru Mitarai.

昭和59 [1984]

"...The chief literary sources of Chinese myths are the Lidai shenxian tongjian 歷代神仙通鑒, the Shenxian liezhuan 神仙列傳, the Fengshen yanyi 封神演義, and the Soushen ji 搜神記. In writing the following pages I have translated or paraphrased largely from these works ... and at times quoted from the....volumes on Chinese superstitions by Père Henri Doré....in Variétés Sinologiques.--Preface.
***Graphic resource

***Graphic resource: Daoist masters, Zhong Kui, Guanyin, Kitchen God, King of Hell, Jade Emperor, Jiang Taigong, etc. in block-print and color reproductions.

Shanhaijing jiaozhu 山海經校注 / Yuan Ke jiaozhu 袁珂校注.
Bibliography: p. 486-495.
Shanjing jianshi 山經柬釋 -- Haijing xinshi 海經新釋 --Shanhaijing mingwu suoyin 山海經名物索引 / Zhang Minghua bian 張明華編.
c.2 1991 printing.
Includes index.

" ... Classic of mountains and seas, a mythogeography, parts of which were written in the Warring States period and part in the Han ... constituting a fabulous bestiary, a botanical thesaurus, a dictionary of natural science, a catalog of geological substances and rare jewels, a guide to portents and omens, a register of medical ailments, an apothecary's handbook, and a medley of folkloric and ethnological material"--Cf. Wilkinson, Chinese history, a manual, p. 569.

shen yu shenhua 神與神話 / Wang Xiaolian 王孝廉. 吳繼文編 ; Yü-shou-hsi, Sheng  御手洗勝等著.

Including bibliographical notes (p. 793-796)

Zhongguo shenhua chuanshuo 中国神話传說 / Yuan Ke 袁珂著

Revised edition of Zhongguo gudai shenhua 中国古代神話
Includes bibliographical references and index