The Dragon in China and Japan
Author: Marinus Willem de Visser
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 264
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Author: Marinus Willem de Visser
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. W. De Visser
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Published: 2008-12-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1605204102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLittle is known of Dutch author MARINUS WILLEM DE VISSER (1876-1930) beyond his academic life as a classicist with an interest in Chinese and Japanese language and culture, and as a popularizer of Japanese art in the Netherlands. He is best remembered today for having given us a cornerstone examination of the legends of fantastic flying reptiles known as dragons. The Dragon in China and Japan contains "the most interesting quotations concerning the dragon in China, systematically arranged, selected from the enormous number of passages on this fantastic animal in Chinese literature, from the remotest eras down to modern times," notes cryptozoologist Loren Coleman in his new introduction. Coleman also praises the book's use of primary source material. "If cryptozoologists are to study the Asian dragons of India, China, and Japan, it must not be done through the screen of today's New Age mentality. Scholarly, level-headed examinations of living, breathing reports of serpentine flying beasts, water-borne megafauna, and shadowy entities must be balanced with investigations of the legends and folktales of these dragons from Asian texts," such as de Visser's here. This new edition, a replica of the 1913 first edition complete with extensive notes in the original Asian alphabet, is part of Cosimo's Loren Coleman Presents series. LOREN COLEMAN is author of numerous books of cryptozoology, including Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America and Mothman and Other Curious Encounters.
Author: M. W. De Visser
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Published: 2008-12-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1605204099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLittle is known of Dutch author MARINUS WILLEM DE VISSER (1876-1930) beyond his academic life as a classicist with an interest in Chinese and Japanese language and culture, and as a popularizer of Japanese art in the Netherlands. He is best remembered today for having given us a cornerstone examination of the legends of fantastic flying reptiles known as dragons. The Dragon in China and Japan contains "the most interesting quotations concerning the dragon in China, systematically arranged, selected from the enormous number of passages on this fantastic animal in Chinese literature, from the remotest eras down to modern times," notes cryptozoologist Loren Coleman in his new introduction. Coleman also praises the book's use of primary source material. "If cryptozoologists are to study the Asian dragons of India, China, and Japan, it must not be done through the screen of today's New Age mentality. Scholarly, level-headed examinations of living, breathing reports of serpentine flying beasts, water-borne megafauna, and shadowy entities must be balanced with investigations of the legends and folktales of these dragons from Asian texts," such as de Visser's here. This new edition, a replica of the 1913 first edition complete with extensive notes in the original Asian alphabet, is part of Cosimo's Loren Coleman Presents series. LOREN COLEMAN is author of numerous books of cryptozoology, including Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America and Mothman and Other Curious Encounters.
Author: Marinus Willem De Visser
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Published: 1913
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Alexander Mackenzie
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 492
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Visser Marinus Willem De 1876-1930
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2013-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781313161695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Donald Alexander Mackenzie
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9781851700165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald A. Mackenzie
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2022-08-21
Total Pages: 594
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Myths of China and Japan with illustrations in colour & monochrome after paintings and photographs" by Donald A. Mackenzie. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author: Ezra F. Vogel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780674315266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVogel brings masterly insight to the underlying question of why Japan and the little dragons--Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore--have been so extraordinarily successful in industrializing while other developing countries have not.
Author: John Paton Davies
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1972-02
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780393332193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Excellently written . . . vivid and authoritative" --George F. Kennan