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Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Moss Roberts Publisher Comments This fresh and elegant translation of 100 tales from 25 centuries of Chinese literature opens up a magical world far from our customary haunts. Illustrated with woodcuts.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Myths and Legends of China by E T C Werner Publisher Comments This highly readable and well-illustrated compilation includes fascinating Chinese myths about gods, stars, water, fire, plus tales about the goddess of mercy, the guardian of the gate of heaven, and many other legends. Features 32 lovely illustrations.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Japanese Tales (87 Edition) by Royall (ed.) Tyler Publisher Comments A collection of 220 dazzling tales from medieval Japan is selected and editedby the acclaimed translator of "The Tale of Genji."... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Moss Roberts Publisher Comments This fresh and elegant translation of 100 tales from 25 centuries of Chinese literature opens up a magical world far from our customary haunts. Illustrated with woodcuts. From the Trade Paperback edition.... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Handbook of Chinese Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology) by Lihui Yang Publisher Comments Every year, at the Wa Huang Gong temple in Hebei Province, China, people gather to worship the great mother, Nuwa, the oldest deity in Chinese myth, praising her for bringing them a happy life. It is a vivid demonstration of both the ancient reach and... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Teach Yourself Chinese Myths (Teach Yourself Myths) by Te Lin Publisher Comments Myths are symbolic stories that have evolved through oral tradition, and they have guided and inspired us for many years. Follow these lively retellings of popular and significant Chinese myths and discover how to unlock their hidden meanings so that... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Handbook of Japanese Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology) by Michael Ashkenazi Publisher Comments Japanese gods, too numerous to count, are known collectively as yaoyorozu-no-kamigami--the eight million. They are the cast of a vast, complex mythology that encompasses two religions, three cultures, and three millennia, one whose ancient deities are... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Japanese Fairy Book, by Yei Theodora Ozaki Publisher Comments The rich world of Japanese fantasy is very apparent in Japanese Fairy Tales, a compilation of twenty-two favorite stories from the land of the rising sun. A fantastic selection of ghouls, goblins and ogres; sea serpents and sea kings; kindly animals and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Chinese Myths (00 Edition) by Anne Birrell Publisher Comments Chinese myths were primarily a diffuse and fragmentary oral tradition, eventually preserved in writing only in a piecemeal fashion. Many classical texts are unavailable in translation, and the stories have been unknown to Western readers. Anne Birrell... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Diamond Path: Tibetan and Mongolian Myth by Michael Kerrigan Publisher Comments A dramatic series that captures, culture by culture, the information that never makes it into the history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tales of a Chinese Grandmother by Frances Carpenter Publisher Comments A wonderful collection of traditional folktales from China, Tales of A Chinese Grandmother presents thirty short stories that are perfect to read aloud at bedtime. The tales, told by the character Lao-lao, the wizened grandmother of the nineteenth... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn Publisher Comments "Kwaidan" means "weird tales." Lafcadio Hearn has taken kwaidan and written some amazing, hair-raising tales of long ago--delicate, transparent, ghostly sketches of a world unreal, but with a haunting sense of spiritual reality. It is a unique collection... (read more) List Price $11.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Chinese Wonder Book: A Classic Collection of Chinese Tales by Norman Hinsdale Pitman Publisher Comments The Chinese Wonder Book contains some of the most beloved tales of China, including 'Why the Dog Hates the Cat,' 'The Great Bell,' 'The Strange Tale of Doctor Dog' and 'The Talking Fish.' Originally published in 1919, this book has served as an... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Taste of Earth by Nhat Hanh Publisher Comments A Taste of Earth is the retelling of twelve traditional stories. It provides an introduction to the rich mythology of Vietnamese culture.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Japanese Tales by Royall Tyler Publisher Comments Here are two hundred and twenty dazzling tales from medieval Japan, tales that welcome us into a fabulous, faraway world populated by saints and scoundrels, ghosts and magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Myths and Legends of Japan (92 Edition) by F. Hadland Davis Publisher Comments This handsomely illustrated book includes myths of gods, heroes, warriors; legends of Buddha, Benten and Daikoku; tales of the sea and of Mount Fuji; accounts of superstitions; and much more. 32 full-page illustrations offer compelling images of Buddha... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols by Wolfram Eberhard Publisher Comments This unique and authoritative guide describes more than 400 important Chinese symbols, explaining their esoteric meanings and connections. Their use and development in Chinese literature and in Chinese custom and attitudes to life are traced lucidly and... (read more) List Price $41.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Myths & Legends of China by E T C Werener Publisher Comments Authoritative and interesting source of information on Chinese mythology.... (read more) Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Creating Heaven, Creating Earth: An Epic Myth of the Lahu Peoplein Yunnan by Anthony R Walker Publisher Comments Reading a people's mythology permits a fascinating entry into another culture. To help the reader appreciate the details of the myth, Anthony Walker provides an ethnographic introduction to the Lahu people and their way of life. A social anthropologist... (read more) List Price $19.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Divine and Demoniac: Mahisa's Heroic Struggle with Durga by Carmel Berkson Publisher Comments Berkson gives a lively description of the importance of the Goddess-Buffalo demon legend in contemporary India, illustrated with remarkable photographs of the annual ritual enactment of the myth in village festivals as well as urban settings. Berkson... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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