Acknowledgements
Introduction by the teacher
The students' perspective
Notes to the reader
I. Part 1: Beliefs and Ideas
1. Divination in Early China
2. Taoist Exorcisms
3. Everyday Symbols Found in the Kitchen
II. Part 2 – Afterlife: tombs, grave goods, and Buddhist purgatory
III. Part 3: Demons, Wild Things, and Where to Find Them
4. Mount Kunlun, the Jade Mountain, and the Queen Mother of the West
IV. Part 3: Animals
5. The Monkey-King
6. The White Snake
7. Dragons
How Chinese people thought about the world around them, and what influenced their ideas and practices.
China's Magical Creatures by Tineke D'Haeseleer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.