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Acknowledgements
Tineke D'Haeseleer
Foreword to the second edition
Introduction by the teacher (First edition)
The students' perspective (First edition)
Notes to the reader
1. Goddess Nüwa
Ricky Wang
2. Chinese Creation Myths
Hunter Sobel
3. Divination in Early China
Inaya Alkhatib
4. Calendars and their Power in Early China
Patrick Carmody
5. The Future of Divination
Juli Mindlin
6. Fangshi and Shi: Hierarchic Power of Knowledge
Emily Leitch
7. Explaining the Extraordinary and the Creation of Fiction
Julian Goldman-Brown
8. Daoism
Irene Keeney
9. Taoist Exorcisms
Jessica Orofino
10. Everyday Symbols Found in the Kitchen
Lauren Padko
11. Intro to the Terracotta Warriors
12. Terracotta Warriors: The Absence of Women in the Tomb
Rebecca Zipper
13. Terracotta Warriors: The Past and the Present
Sabrina Pfeiffer
14. The People Who Created the First Emperor's Tomb
Amy Attias
15. Graves, Grave digging, Ancestors and Luck
Aevyn Barnett
16. The Significance of Tomb Burial
Regina Lau
17. Buddhist Hell: Overview and Structure
Kayleigh Durning
18. Introduction of Buddhism into China
Dean Schweinler
19. The Ten Kings and Emperor Taizong
Jarrett Azar
20. The Monkey-King
Phuc Nguyen
21. The White Snake
Jennifer Cote
22. Dragons
Nyjah Johnson
23. Fox Spirits
Anna Mirsky
24. Daiji the Fox Spirit
Kaitlyn Jannuzzi
25. Mount Kunlun, the Jade Mountain, and the Queen Mother of the West
Bianca Capozzi
26. Classic of Mountains and Seas
Patrick McDonald
In-depth studies of animals that cross the boundary between nature and other realms.
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China's Magical Creatures Copyright © 2022 by Aevyn Barnett; William Maloy; Sabrina Pfeiffer; Ricky Wang; Regina Lau; Rebecca Zipper; Phuc Nguyen; Philip Lee; Patrick McDonald; Patrick Carmody; Nyjah Johnson; Lauren Padko; Kayleigh Durning; Kaitlyn Jannuzzi; Julian Goldman-Brown; Juli Mindlin; Jessica Orofino; Jennifer Cote; Jarrett Azar; Irene Keeney; Inaya Alkhatib; Hunter Sobel; Emily Leitch; Dean Schweinler; Bianca Capozzi; Patrick Carmody; Anna Mirsky; and Amy Attias is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.