Wandering Spirits: Chen Shiyuan's Encyclopedia of Dreams

by Richard E. Strassberg

Dreams have been taken seriously in China for at least three millennia. Wandering Spirits is a translation and study of the most comprehensive work on dream culture in traditional China--Lofty Principles of Dream Interpretation (Mengzhan yizhi), compiled in 1562 by Chen Shiyuan and periodically reprinted up to the modern era. The best introduction to the diversity of ideas held by the educated class about dreams, this unique treatise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520252942
• ISBN13: 9780520252943
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"