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A Narrative of Cultural Encounter in Southern China: Wu Xing Fights the 'Jiao'

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A Narrative of Cultural Encounter in Southern China: Wu Xing Fights the 'Jiao' - Clark, Hugh R.
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Late in the 8th century, under the Tang dynasty, a local magnate led a land reclamation project on the Fujian coast that is emblematic of the encounter between the Sinitic culture of the Yellow River basin in northern China and the local cultures of the south. Later accounts say the drainage canals were undercut by a jiao, a mythological dragon-like beast that was a stand-in for the crocodiles that once inhabited the south China coast. The book uses this incident to explore the interaction between the indigenous pre-Sinitic ...

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A Narrative of Cultural Encounter in Southern China: Wu Xing Fights the 'Jiao' 2022, Anthem Press, London

ISBN-13: 9781839984136

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